Russia’s president and Kim Jong Un are set to explore a range of “sensitive topics” during talks on Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin met his North Korean counterpart in eastern Russia, according to a video released by the Kremlin on Wednesday.

Accompanied by top military brass and senior government figures, Kim Jong Un implied to the Russian president he supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Russia has risen to a sacred fight to protect its sovereignty and security against the hegemonic forces,” he told reporters. “North Korea supports all Putin’s decisions.”

“I’m sure we will remain together in [the] fight against imperialism,” Kim said earlier, expressing his gratitude to the Russian leader for the visit.

The two men are due to discuss a range of “sensitive topics”, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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    When the country with the largest land mass, and fourth largest population on the world, needs help from a hermit peninsula with 1800s level of industrialization.

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      Well they need help from China, but they aren’t as prepared to lend military assistance as Russia thought they would be.

      So they’ve had to turn to the likes of Iran and North Korea.

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        Getting a strong feeling China will actually be the supplier rather than NK. They’re just a front, I’m guessing.

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          Why would China need a proxy. They’re already sanctioned by the US government so there isn’t really any reason to play coy

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            US sanctions against China are absolutely minimal. There is a lot of room to escalate. But apart from that, I don’t think that’s what’s happening. NK has nothing but weapons. Old and shitty ones, sure. But most of them can explode.

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    “Fighting imperialism”… while trying to take over a sovereign country.

    Some days I wish we could harness dissonance for power. We wouldn’t need any other sources in the world.

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    We will fight imperialism together."

    … Then they started swinging at each other. The end.

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    “Together?” said Jong Un, lightly biting his lower lip. Vladimir scooped Jong Un up in his strong, authoritarian arm, and whispered in his ear, “Da, sweet Jong Un. Together…”

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    Fight imperialism huh? Cool, so I guess Russia will immediately withdraw from Ukraine, return their land, and genuinely try to make reparations for all the people they murdered, right?

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      No, of course not, silly. Imperialism is only when someone else doing it. And it does not matter what “it” is.

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    Is he not collapsing the Russian empire fast enough by himself? Does he need North Korea to nuke Saint Petersburg or something?

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      Just like rightists everywhere. Every accusation is just projection of their own guilt.

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    I guess the friendship with china wasn’t unlimited enough, now friendship extends to their irresponsible little cousin who constantly pees in the trashcan.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Accompanied by top military brass and senior government figures, Kim Jong Un implied to the Russian president he supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

    The pair visited a rocket assembly and launch site, known as the Vostochny Cosmodrome, with the Russian leader promising to help North Korea build satellites.

    Speaking to Euronews in September, Fyodor Tertitskiy, an expert in North Korean history and military, was skeptical a meaningful deal could be struck since much depends on whether China approves.

    He also claimed Pyongyang has not seen any economic wins from supporting Moscow - with an “actual trade balance of zero” between the two in 2022 - despite North Korea publically backing the Ukraine invasion and annexation of Crimea.

    Having left Pyongyang on Sunday evening aboard a bulletproof train, Kim’s visit to Russia was his first trip abroad since the start of the COVID pandemic.

    It also has the production lines and personnel to produce more at scale," said Siemon Wezeman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Insitute (SIPRI) in a statement sent to Euronews.


    The original article contains 794 words, the summary contains 173 words. Saved 78%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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        The US is an unreliable security partner, what if trump wins next year for example? The only way South Korea (and Taiwan to be fair) can secure their independence and sovereignty is a nuclear deterrent

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          the US is an unreliable security partner

          Yeah that’s the reputation the US has - totally unwilling to get into wars against communists.

          South Korea is not some contested alliance. They’re the actual Korea the way Taiwan is the actual China. Neither of these places will fall and the US will absolutely go to war for them, and I find it kind of crazy that anyone thinks we wouldn’t.

          What in our history suggests we would allow communist states to conquer their last remaining bastions of liberal democracy?

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            I’m sure that kind of thing makes the residents of Seoul much less agreeable to getting a nuclear deterrent

            Don’t you get it? We’re on the same side, I think the US should stay out of Taiwan and South Korea also, that’s why they need nuclear weapons! Probably Japan too, if history is anything to go by. Vietnam as well