{"id":67439,"date":"2024-10-25T03:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/24\/putin-does-not-deny-north-korea-has-sent-soldiers-to-russia"},"modified":"2024-10-25T03:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:08:17","slug":"putin-does-not-deny-north-korea-has-sent-soldiers-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67439","title":{"rendered":"Putin does not deny North Korea has sent soldiers to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president sidesteps claims after US said it had seen evidence 3,000 troops had been sent<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has sidestepped claims that North Korea has sent soldiers to Russia, insisting that it was up to Moscow how to run its mutual defence clause with Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the close of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/oct\/22\/putin-brics-summit-russia-china-india-iran-kazan\">the Brics summit<\/a> in Kazan on Thursday, he accused the west of escalating the Ukraine war and said it was \u201cliving an illusion\u201d if it thought it could inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/24\/putin-does-not-deny-north-korea-has-sent-soldiers-to-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president sidesteps claims after US said it had seen evidence 3,000 troops had been sentVladimir Putin has sidestepped claims that North Korea has sent soldiers to Russia, insisting that it was up to Moscow how to run its mutual defence clause &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,221,40,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67439","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67439\/revisions\/67440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}