Putin visits North Korea

[Davino]

 

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CNN — 

Vladimir Putin is set to travel to North Korea for a two-day visit starting Tuesday, the Kremlin said, in the Russian president’s first trip to the country in more than two decades – and the latest sign of a deepening alignment that’s raised widespread international concern.

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Putin’s trip to North Korea will have a “very eventful” agenda, his aide Yuri Ushakov said during a press conference Monday. Both leaders plan to sign a new strategic partnership, Ushakov said, with main events of the visit scheduled for Wednesday. Ushakov insisted the agreement is not provocative or aimed against other countries, but is meant to ensure greater stability in northeast Asia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/17/asia/north-korea-russia-putin-visit-intl-hnk/index.html

What are your thoughts on this chess move?

Edited June 17 by Davino

[integral]

It seems unwise to visit North Korea. Maybe he is desperate?

Edited June 18 by integral

[Husseinisdoingfine]

As a Russian person (citizen and ethnically), it is distressing to see my country become more and more like North Korea, and less like Democratic Western Europe.

[Hatfort]

Seems like a diplomatic visit, since North Korea has also been selling shells and weapons to Russia in these times of war. They are almost neighbors and might be seeking mutually beneficial accords. The West proclaims both of them as enemies, so it's not that a strange move.

I don't think Russia is becoming such as North Korea, which is a dictatorship. Russia has big issues, and I'm sure many of the bad things you can say about Putin are true, but he is winning his elections broadly now. One of the important things is that he is not a puppet to the West, and that's what is best for Russia right now.

[Leo Gura]

New low for Putin.

[Danioover9000]

@Hatfort

13 hours ago, Hatfort said:

Seems like a diplomatic visit, since North Korea has also been selling shells and weapons to Russia in these times of war. They are almost neighbors and might be seeking mutually beneficial accords. The West proclaims both of them as enemies, so it's not that a strange move.

I don't think Russia is becoming such as North Korea, which is a dictatorship. Russia has big issues, and I'm sure many of the bad things you can say about Putin are true, but he is winning his elections broadly now. One of the important things is that he is not a puppet to the West, and that's what is best for Russia right now.

   True that North Korea does sell them some weapons and especially artillery shells they keep stockpiled by the millions towards the South Koreans. Both North and South Korea know the importance of artillery shells and keep extra amounts of it, they keep so much of it.

[Danioover9000]

@integral

14 hours ago, integral said:

It seems unwise to visit North Korea. Maybe he is desperate?

   Why is it unwise? North Korea was selling weapons to Putin, and both are similar in thinking, therefore it makes sense to pay a visit to a like minded leader. Keep in mind Biden and the USA are super powerful country, a very powerful country. You need all the help you can get to even the odds I guess.

[Yimpa]

 

[Danioover9000]

@Yimpa

13 hours ago, Yimpa said:

 

   OMG GOLD! They're like best buddies man!🤣🤣🤣

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Putin waving goodbye from the plane window at the end.

It looks like kids saying goodbye after a sleepover.

[Leo Gura]

Trump wishes he was there.

[Merkabah Star]

Sounds like a good match to me. 

[Heaven]

You choose what side of history you wanna be.

If you support: Russia/Iran(Lebanon,Gaza,Egypt,Turkey)/North Korea. Who are corrupt, dictatorships, abusive and unethical.

Or you support: Ukraine, Israel, USA. Who values freedom, human rights and ethical.

It cannot be more obvious.

 

[Merkabah Star]

50 minutes ago, Heaven said:

Or you support: Ukraine, Israel, USA. Who values freedom, human rights and ethical.

That’s a stretch, heaven. 😂

Edited June 21 by Merkabah Star

[Leo Gura]

Israel is not ethical.

USA ethics are questionable too.

Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Edited June 21 by Leo Gura

[Twentyfirst]

But have you ever seen Kim Jong Un unleash carnage in the same way Israel is doing to Gaza? 

[Danioover9000]

@Twentyfirst

3 minutes ago, Twentyfirst said:

But have you ever seen Kim Jong Un unleash carnage in the same way Israel is doing to Gaza? 

   Not yet, and apparently his nuclear rockets, the tactical ones not strategic, have the range to reach all the way to the USA.

[Danioover9000]

@Heaven

1 hour ago, Heaven said:

You choose what side of history you wanna be.

If you support: Russia/Iran(Lebanon,Gaza,Egypt,Turkey)/North Korea. Who are corrupt, dictatorships, abusive and unethical.

Or you support: Ukraine, Israel, USA. Who values freedom, human rights and ethical.

It cannot be more obvious.

 

   You mean I'm forced to choose Russia, Iran, and North Korea, countries doing fine with birthrates exception being Russia due to first country which legalized abortion, countries that have more order and functioning autocracies, versus Ukraine/USA/Israel, countries suffering from birthrate declines, excess of westernized liberalism, egalitarianism, feminism run amok, too lofty leftist ideals that ruin the family unit, ruin marriages, increase single parent households, that overall produce softer minded citizens complaining and milking social benefits, and those countries having Neoliberalism which destabilizes 3rd world countries like Haiti and others, which contributes to mass immigration? 

[Danioover9000]

@Leo Gura

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Israel is not ethical.

USA ethics are questionable too.

Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

TRUE!

[Twentyfirst]

30 minutes ago, Danioover9000 said:

@Twentyfirst

   Not yet, and apparently his nuclear rockets, the tactical ones not strategic, have the range to reach all the way to the USA.

Yeah but the USA has nukes too. Why is one country allowed to have them but another isn't

The USA dropped bombs on Japan. Did North Korea drop bombs on Japan?