Putin wants to deepen relations with North Korea

International Desk: Russia wants to make bilateral relations closer with North Korea. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed this desire in a greeting message sent on the occasion of the country's Independence Day on August 15. Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea, also responded to Putin's call. Thanking the Russian president, Kim said, “The relations between the people and armed forces of Russia and North Korea are friendly.

The enemy of the two countries is one and the bloody fight against this enemy is the basis of friendship. We wish to take this friendship to wider cooperation and unconquerable comradeship.” Kim Jong Un visited Moscow in September last year. Nine months after that visit, Putin visited Pyongyang last June. During that visit, the agreement on 'Detailed Strategic Partnership' was signed between the heads of state of the two countries. The agreement also had defense cooperation.

Recently, the United States, Ukraine and North Korea's neighbor South Korea have accused Pyongyang of regularly supplying Moscow with rockets and missiles. Putin sent a message of Independence Day greetings to North Korea amid discussions in the Western world about this accusation.

Undivided Korea was once a Japanese colony. From 1910 to 1945, the Korean Peninsula gained independence after a long 35-year war; At the same time, two separate states named North and South Korea were born. The Second World War started in 1939 while the Korean War of Independence was going on.

At that time, the former Soviet Union supported Korea with troops, ammunition and logistics. After independence, North Korea joined the then-Soviet bloc, while South Korea allied itself with the Western world, led by the United States. North Korea has a cemetery for Russian soldiers who died in the war of independence. Kim visits the cemetery every year on Independence Day to pay his respects. Went this time too.