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.

  • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    1072 years ago

    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.

    • Echo Dot
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      202 years ago

      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.

        • Echo Dot
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          62 years ago

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

          • @the_wise_wolf@feddit.de
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            92 years ago

            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.

    • ssillyssadass
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      82 years ago

      NK probably has a better military than Russia, and Putin wants it

  • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    792 years ago

    “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.

  • Jay
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    452 years ago

    We will fight imperialism together."

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

  • The Giant Korean
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    422 years ago

    “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…”

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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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?

    • MxM111
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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.

  • @Deestan@lemmy.world
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    212 years ago

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

  • "no" banana
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    32 years ago

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

      • kitonthenet
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        42 years ago

        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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            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

            • @SCB@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              Maybe once capitalism finishes winning in Vietnam we can revisit the nukes discussion but under no circumstances can you trust commies with nuclear weapons.

        • @SCB@lemmy.world
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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?