❗️Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and DPRK will become the driving force accelerating the creation of a new multipolar world, Kim Jong-un said.

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💬 Russia categorically does not accept attempts to blame North Korea for complicating the situation in the world — Putin

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Key statements by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un following talks in Pyongyang

🇷🇺 Russian president:

🔸 The concluded treaty on comprehensive partnership provides, among other things, for mutual assistance in case of aggression against one of the participants;

🔸 Russia does not rule out the possibility of military-technical cooperation with the DPRK in accordance with the signed treaty;

🔸 Both Russia and the DPRK pursue an independent foreign policy and will not accept the language of blackmail and diktat;

🔸 Moscow and Pyongyang will continue to oppose the practice of sanctions strangulation as a tool used by the West to maintain hegemony;

🔸 The US-led UN Security Council sanctions against the DPRK should be reconsidered.

🇰🇵 DPRK leader:

🔹 The concluded treaty between Moscow and Pyongyang is peaceful and defensive in nature and will accelerate the creation of a new multipolar world;

🔹 The new treaty between Russia and the DPRK envisages the development of cooperation between the two countries, including in the military sphere;

🔹 Russia is the most honest friend and associate for the DPRK, and Putin is the dearest friend of the Korean people.

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G7 countries hiding behind their partners' backs in stealing Russian assets — Russian FM

"Through various channels, some [G7] colleagues began to make us understand that 'it is definitely not us, it is other members on the G7 [who] will take away [money] from you. Please do not think to apply any retaliatory measures against us'," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Earlier this month, G7 countries officially confirmed their intention to provide Ukraine with about $50 billion in loans by the end of the year, which will be paid from the proceeds of Russian frozen assets.

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📹Vladimir Putin got behind the wheel of the brand new Aurus Russian luxury car to give Kim Jong-un a ride

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Vladimir Putin drove North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the destination point. Then they went for a walk in the park together.

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📹Watch Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full press conference speech after talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

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❗️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 300 soldiers and an ammunition depot in the area of responsibility of the Russian Sever combat group;

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ The Tsentr combat group defeated formations of four brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and repulsed five Ukrainian counterattacks. Ukrainian losses amounted to 355 soldiers;

▪️ Ukrainian troops lost 450 soldiers and two field ammunition depots during the day as a result of the Zapad group's actions;

▪️ Units of the Yug combat group destroyed two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 560 soldiers;

▪️ The Vostok combat group destroyed two field ammunition depots of four brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 120 soldiers;

▪️ Units of the Dnepr combat group hit formations of two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day. The enemy lost up to 110 soldiers;

▪️ Russian air defenses intercepted three Hammer guided bombs, ten HIMARS shells and 43 Ukrainian drones during the day.

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Putin and Kim hold ‘impressive' and 'healthy' meeting amid Western 'propaganda mill'

Russian President Putin “is telling the Americans and the others” that his country has “not been isolated either by sanctions or by other things,” Professor Joe Siracusa, a political scientist and dean of global futures at Australia's Curtin University, tells Sputnik, commenting on Putin’s June 18-19 visit to North Korea.

“Putin is showing that sanctions don't work. When he does this, he demonstrates to the world that there is an alternate universe out there. It's not a rules-based system that's determined in Washington and London, there's a rules-based system that evolves organically beyond this usual corridor of power. I think it's a very healthy achievement in that sense,” Siracusa says.

Putin’s visit is “the normal business of a nation,” according to the political scientist, as “there is a common border with North Korea" and "Russia has a long history of economic and security relations" with the DPRK, Siracusa stresses.

On the whole, Putin's state visit to Pyongyang was very impressive, the pundit says, pointing to the fact that the Russian president “got the red carpet treatment" and that “Chairman Kim came out to the plane to meet him.”

The analyst rejected allegations by the American political and foreign policy elite that Russia and North Korea are “bad guys” who pose a threat to the West as “absolutely false.”

“This is the kind of that propaganda mill that goes on in Washington with the mainstream media playing sort of the Greek chorus for the American political elite,” Siracusa concludes.

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Putin and Kim Jong-un lay flowers at monument in memory of Soviet soldiers who died during liberation of Korea from Japanese occupiers.

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❗️Watch live: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs holds press conference following BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting

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Today, Putin and Kim Jong-un signed agreement on construction of border road bridge over the Tumannaya River

What should you know about the North Korean-Russian border?

▪️ Russia and North Korea have a common border. It is located in the Russian Far East near the large port city of Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan and the province of Hamgyong-Pukto and the city of Rason, which has the special status of "city of direct subordination".

▪️ Russia's border with North Korea is the shortest section of the state border with other countries. Its total length is only 39.8 km.

▪️ The border is mainly along the waterway: 22.1 kilometers - along the Sea of Japan and 17.3 kilometers - along the Tumannaya River.

▪️ Since the proclamation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948, Russia has been actively developing rail communications with the country.

▪️ In 1959, a Friendship Railroad Bridge was built over this river. It is still in use for commercial and passenger traffic.

▪️ In 1990, the USSR and the DPRK established the state boundary line along the channel of the Tumanaya River. The USSR received Noktundo Island with a total area of 32 square kilometers, which was inherited by Russia.

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📹Watch North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's full press conference speech after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Military-political alliance between Russia and N Korea challenges US hegemony in Northeast Asia

The new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and North Korea, signed today by Putin and Kim Jong Un, heralds a paradigm shift in Northeast Asia, says Artyom Lukin, a professor of international politics at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok.

The clause stipulating mutual assistance in case of aggression against the treaty’s signatories essentially means that Russia and North Korea established a military-political alliance, Lukin explains.

This, he notes, is a significant development since until now, only the United States maintained comprehensive military-political alliances in the region with Japan and South Korea.

According to Lukin, this new alliance effectively amounts to issuing a “direct challenge to the United States’ military-political hegemony” in the “heart of the Asia-Pacific region."

“Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un have once again shown that they can deliver strategic surprises," Lukin concludes.

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What makes the Russia-DPRK alliance so significant?

The new pact between Russia and North Korea is a “significant political and strategic development because it effectively links European security more tightly to Asian security in the formal sense,” says Dr. Victor Teo, a political scientist who specializes in international relations in the Indo-Pacific region.

“The DPRK would be obliged to help Russia defend itself if Russia gets into a conflict with NATO countries; just as Russia would be obliged to help Pyongyang if North Korea enters into a conflict with the US and South Korea,” he elaborates.

Dr. Teo also argues that Vladimir Putin’s proposal to review the UN sanctions imposed on North Korea appears “understandable” in light of the new treaty between Russia and DPRK.

“The problem, however, is that this is probably easier said than done because the amendments probably need to be ratified by the other members, one of which is the United States,” he points out.

Artyom Lukin, professor of international politics at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, however, suggests that, while Russia may not necessarily stop formally adhering by the UNSC sanctions imposed on North Korea, there may be ways to ensure that these sanctions do not hamper the cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.

“Regarding the UN sanctions: if you are allies, what sanctions may exist between you?” Lukin wondered aloud.

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Ukrainian citizen was detained on territory of thermal power plant in Bulgaria, he is suspected of espionage, the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office reports

The detainee had drones, cell phones, cameras and SIM cards in his possession.

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Key statements by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

▪️ Russia has a wide arsenal of possible countermeasures in response to the decision of the G7 countries to allocate $50 billion to Ukraine from the proceeds of Russian assets, their property under Russian jurisdiction may be at risk.

▪️The Nuclear consultations between the US and South Korea provoke an escalation on the Korean peninsula and prove that Washington is pursuing an aggressive policy in the region.

▪️Any threats to Russia, including the deployment of American intermediate-range missiles in Japan, will be met with an appropriate response from Moscow.

▪️Russia expects that countries with peace formulas that differ from the results of the Swiss conference will supplement their proposals.

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Germany fears possible terrorist attacks amid Euro 2024

The football tournament's hosts could face an assault similar to the attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall in March this year, German officials have stated.

“Europe, and with it Germany, are in the crosshairs of jihadist organizations, in particular ISIS.* Coordinated, complex, long-planned attacks remain conceivable in Germany,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told German media.

“A potential scenario is a large-scale, coordinated attack of the kind we recently saw in Moscow,” said Thomas Haldenwang, head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV).

Recently, ISIS-K*’s propaganda entity “Voice of Khorasan” posted a montage with a fighter in a football stadium carrying an assault rifle along with the innoscription: “shoot the last goal!”

*ISIS (also known as ISIS/IL/ISIS-K/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries

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