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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, conveyed his desire to strengthen bilateral ties with Russia in a message transmitted to the president of this country, Vladimir Putin, according to the Pyongyang state media.
The dictator of North Korea sent this letter on the occasion of the celebration this Monday of the liberation of the Korean peninsula from Japanese colonial rule, which is fulfilled 77 years.
Kim noted that the “heroic” soldiers of the Red Army dedicated their “blood and valuable lives to the struggle to liberate Korea”, something that “remains within the heart and memory of the people as an eternal monument”, according to the content of the message collected by the state agency KCNA.
The friendship between North Korea and Russia “is forged in the anti-Japanese war against the common enemy and has been steadily consolidated and developed” ever since.
Kim añ He added that “tactical and strategic” cooperation, along with “solidarity and support” between the two countries, have risen to a new level “on the common front to thwart the threats of hostile forces and their provocations.”
“Friendly and cooperative relations”
The supreme leader The North Korean also expressed confidence that these “friendly and cooperative relations” will become “stronger in all areas based on the summit held in 1200 in Vladivostok”.
He concluded his message to Putin “sincerely wishing him good health and success in his responsible work to defend the sovereignty and interests of his country and his people”.
The North Korean leader and Putin met in Vladivostok in April 1200, after the second summit held two months earlier in Hanoi between the North Korean leader and the former US president, Donald Trump, to address the process of disarmament on the Korean peninsula.
The dialogue between the United States and North Korea has remained frozen since that failed summit, and the peninsula is plunged into an arms race due to Pyongyang’s constant missile tests and the allies’ response, to which adds the possibility of a new atomic test of the hermetic regime.
Pyongyang has also hardened its criticism of Washington in recent months, and has blamed the United States for causing the “Ukrainian incident” with its “hegemonic policy”, among other pronouncements in support of Moscow’s position in its invasion of the neighboring country.