Forget about Putin’s relationship with Kabaeva. The Russian President’s newest relationship with Kim Jong-un could be far more serious. The pair have reportedly joined forces in the midst of facing ‘hostile military forces’ from the West.
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According to Fortune, their letters suggest future diplomatic ties and a geopolitical alliance.
New BFFs?
Apparently the ‘love letters’between former US President Donald Trumpand Kim have flown off the North Korean leader’s radar, overwritten by his new relationship with social and political pariah, Putin.
Their exchanges on 15 August revealed that Russia and North Korea are looking to strengthen their ties in pursuit of ‘shared interests’ in the face of ‘global threats’, as told to Fortune by KCNA.
Kim wrote:
The strategic and tactical cooperation, support, and solidarity between the two countries have put on a new high stage in the common front for frustrating the hostile forces’ military threat and provocation, and high-handed and arbitrary practices.
While the exact ‘hostile forces’ mentioned in Kim’s message have not been specified, they are suspected to refer to the de-nuclearization proposals put forward by the US and its allies. Even Trump’s aforementioned ‘love letters’ with Kim outlined the possibility of de-nuclearization, suggesting that what Trump thought was a love affair could be no more than hogwash.
Allied by alienation
Although the duo’s relationship began blossoming at a summit in 2019, it has since continued to flourish alongsideRussia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to KCNA reports cited in Fortune, Kim sees what the UN calls ‘mass killings’ and ‘war crimes’ as the ‘just cause of defending the dignity and security of their country.’
He also recently acknowledged the independence of a Ukrainian breakaway state occupied by Russian supporters, known as the Donetsk region – a move which severed Ukraine’s diplomatic relations with North Korea.
Putin and Kim may be short on friends in the rest of the world, but they seem to be two peas in a pod. After all, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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