{"id":53546,"date":"2024-06-20T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53546"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:57:34","slug":"putin-in-hanoi-after-inking-n-korea-defence-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53546","title":{"rendered":"Putin in Hanoi after inking N. Korea defence pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a state visit to Vietnam on Thursday, a day after signing a mutual defence pact with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un, who offered his &#8220;full support&#8221; on Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putin and Kim inked a strategic treaty at a summit in Pyongyang that included a pledge to come to each other&#8217;s aid if attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and its allies accuse North Korea of supplying ammunition and missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, and the deal fuelled fears of more deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department said deepening Russia-North Korea ties were &#8220;of great concern&#8221; while a top Ukrainian official accused Pyongyang of abetting Moscow&#8217;s &#8220;mass murder of Ukrainians&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Making his first visit to the isolated North in 24 years on Wednesday, Putin said he did not rule out &#8220;military-technical cooperation&#8221; with Pyongyang, which like Moscow is under heavy international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we are fighting together against the hegemonism and neo-colonial practices of the United States and its satellites,&#8221; Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have been allies since North Korea&#8217;s founding after World War II and have drawn even closer since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 isolated Putin on the global stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a state visit to Vietnam on Thursday, a day after signing a mutual defence pact with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un, who offered his &#8220;full support&#8221; on Ukraine. Putin and Kim inked a strategic treaty at a summit in Pyongyang that included a pledge to come to each other&#8217;s aid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1786],"class_list":["post-53546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-putin-in-hanoi-after-inking-n-korea-defence-pact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}