Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin have sent a chilling warning to the West as they vowed to form a “New World Order”. North Korea said it has agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia as both countries ramp up a united front against the United States.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two countries agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation to defend their core interests and establish a “new multi-polarised international order”.
The government body also highlighted Putin’s intent for a visit Pyongyang, saying that could come at an “early date”.
It followed North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui’s meetings with the Russian president and Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov in Moscow last week.
North Korea has been aggressively tightening ties with Russia especially after Kim Jong-un’s September visit to Russia for a summit with Putin.
One of the few world leaders openly supporting Putin’s war on Ukraine, the North Korean tyrant is attempting to break out of diplomatic isolation.
Kim is trying to regain his footing as he navigates a worsening nuclear stalemate with Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo.
The North’s Foreign Ministry added Choe and the Russian officials expressed “serious concern” over the US’ expanding military cooperation with its Asian allies that they blamed for worsening tensions in the region and threatening North Korea’s sovereignty and security interests.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest point in years, after Kim in recent months used Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a distraction to ramp up his weapons tests and military demonstrations.
The United States, South Korea and Japan have responded by strengthening their combined military exercises, nicknamed invasion rehearsals by Kim portrays as invasion rehearsals.
The trio are also sharpening their deterrence plans built around nuclear-capable US assets.
Warnings of a potential new world order had already been given by Putin’s warmonger foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who told the West that their time of “global domination” is over.
In a major press conference, the Kremlin crony blamed the West for launching a “war” against Russia and claimed Moscow and its allies have now “surpassed” Nato on the world stage.
Lavrov spoke on Thursday of the disintegration of Russia’s relations with the West, the “mounting nuclear risks” and the “hostile” context the world is currently in.
He said the US and its allies “ruled the world for 500 years” and did not have “any competition” other than during the Soviet period.
But Vlad’s lap dog pledged that those days are done.
He heralded a new age of geopolitics, referring to the “emerging and strengthening centres of economic growth, financial power and political influence”.
