{"id":76832,"date":"2026-03-26T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/26\/north-korea-belarus-friendship-cooperation-treaty"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:48:34","slug":"north-korea-and-belarus-sign-friendship-and-cooperation-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76832","title":{"rendered":"North Korea and Belarus sign \u2018friendship and cooperation\u2019 treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un welcomed Alexander Lukashenko with lavish ceremony, including artillery salute and goose-stepping soldiers before a large flag-waving crowd <\/p>\n<p>North Korea and Belarus\u2019s strongmen leaders signed a \u201cfriendship and cooperation\u201d treaty on Thursday, state media reported, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> \u201cwarmly\u201d welcomed president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/alexander-lukashenko\">Alexander Lukashenko<\/a> to Pyongyang for a maiden visit.<\/p>\n<p>Besides supporting Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine \u2013 about 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/05\/north-korea-troops-russia-ukraine-war-kim-jong-un-putin\">North Korean soldiers<\/a> are thought to have been killed \u2013 both nations are subject to western sanctions and are accused of gross human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/26\/north-korea-belarus-friendship-cooperation-treaty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un welcomed Alexander Lukashenko with lavish ceremony, including artillery salute and goose-stepping soldiers before a large flag-waving crowd North Korea and Belarus\u2019s strongmen leaders signed a \u201cfriendship and cooperation\u201d treaty on Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[1391,421,40,419,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belarus","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76832","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76833,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76832\/revisions\/76833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}