DAILY MAIL
Vladimir Putin and fellow dictator Kim Jong Un formed a ‘blood alliance’ during their arms-deal talks in Russia, an analyst has said, raising fears that North Korea will supply Moscow with ammunition for its war in Ukraine.
Putin has even accepted an invitation to visit North Korea in a growing sign of the Russian warmonger’s desperation to forge ties with Pyongyang amid his gruelling offensive against Kyiv.
The Russian despot had greeted Kim yesterday at Russia’s modern space rocket launch site with an enthusiastic handshake that lasted 40 seconds in a rare summit.
Western officials and a former US general said yesterday that the fact that Putin had to plead with Kim for ageing ammunition and rockets to help with his grinding war in Ukraine is a ‘clear sign of his isolation and desperation’.
And now, Putin has gone one step further and accepted an invitation to visit North Korea ‘with pleasure’ after the two dictators called each other ‘comrades’ as they toasted their future cooperation over a dinner featuring crab dumplings, sturgeon and beef.
Western countries have repeatedly raised concerns of a possible arms agreement between Russia and North Korea, as Moscow’s war in Ukraine grinds on.
And experts have now warned that Kim’s visit to Russia is a sign that the relations between the two dictatorships have ‘completely returned to the level of blood alliance during the Cold War’.
‘The summit signals a seismic change in the Northeast Asian geopolitics,’ said Kim Jong-dae, a former MP and visiting scholar at Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies.
A stronger alliance between North Korea, Russia and China could become a ‘destabilising force in the region’, and ammunition from Pyongyang could significantly impact the war in Ukraine.
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