{"id":65154,"date":"2024-06-23T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/23\/a-return-to-the-cold-war-putin-and-kim-have-joined-forces-as-global-delinquents"},"modified":"2024-06-23T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:00:02","slug":"a-return-to-the-cold-war-putin-and-kim-have-joined-forces-as-global-delinquents-andrew-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65154","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A return to the cold war\u2019: Putin and Kim have joined forces as global delinquents | Andrew Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defiant Russia-North Korea friendship pact raises big questions for Washington and Seoul \u2013 but also for Beijing<\/p>\n<p>A quarter of a century ago, Vladimir Putin flew to Pyongyang to sign a \u00ad\u201cfriendship treaty\u201d with Kim Jong-il that helped revive Russia\u2019s relations with North Korea without obliging the two sides to come to each other\u2019s aid in case of a military attack.<\/p>\n<p>With his visit last week, Putin has in effect gone further into the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/russia-and-north-korea-sign-mutual-defence-pact\">signing a deal with Kim Jong-un<\/a> reminiscent of the 1961 security pact that existed under the Soviet Union during the cold war. But today Russia is engaged in a hot war in Ukraine that Putin has made his \u00adforeign policy priority, and a nuclear North Korea has become a crucial lifeline of munitions for his military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/23\/a-return-to-the-cold-war-putin-and-kim-have-joined-forces-as-global-delinquents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defiant Russia-North Korea friendship pact raises big questions for Washington and Seoul \u2013 but also for BeijingA quarter of a century ago, Vladimir Putin flew to Pyongyang to sign a \u00ad\u201cfriendship treaty\u201d with Kim Jong-il that helped revive Russia\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,421,40,441,419,222,930,47,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65155,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154\/revisions\/65155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}