The new Kim-Putin pact is causing unrest – and there is talk of more aid for Ukraine, An opaque new treaty that Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed this week — which includes a mutual defense pledge and military aid — has rattled the United States, Japan and South Korea. But it also encourages closer trilateral security cooperation and support for war-torn Ukraine.
Kim and Putin praised the agreement on Wednesday after their summit in Pyongyang, with the North Korean leader saying it amounted to a de facto “alliance” and the Russian president calling it a “breakthrough document.”
But the two strongmen’s breathless exhortations that the pact will usher in a new era of ties and pave the way for a “multipolar” world are unlikely to materialize any time soon.
