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Putin does not rule out supplying weapons to North Korea as NATO does in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not rule out on Thursday the supply of weapons to North Korea in response to the delivery of modern weapons to Ukraine by NATO countries.

“We reserve the right to supply weapons to other regions of the world. And I also do not rule this out in view of our agreement with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Putin said during a press conference at the end of his visit to Vietnam, broadcast on Russian public television.

Putin assured that “Westerners provide weapons to Ukraine and from then on they say that they no longer control anything, and it does not matter how they are used.”

“Well, we can also say that we have supplied something to someone and then we don’t take care of anything,” he said.

As for the mutual assistance agreement in case of aggression signed this Wednesday with Pyongyang, Putin took iron from him, arguing that “it is nothing new.”

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“We have signed this agreement because the old one has ceased to exist. And in the previous agreement of 1961 it was all the same, there is no news,” he said.

Although he admitted that “in the current context this seems somewhat extraordinary,” he added that “we have changed almost nothing” and that the situation in the world requires legal strengthening relations with Russia’s partners, especially in Asia.

South Korea “does not have to worry, since our military aid under the agreement we signed is only raised if an aggression is committed in relation to one of the signatories of the document. As far as I know, the Republic of Korea does not plan an aggression against North Korea,” he said.

Putin stressed that, in reality, the agreement he signed with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, will be “a deterrent so that the (Korean) crisis” does not translate into an armed conflict.

And, in response to a reporter’s question, he ruled out the possible deployment of North Korean soldiers on the battlefield of Ukraine.

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The signing of the mutual assistance agreement between Russia and North Korea has caused great discomfort in Seoul, but also in the United States and Japan.

Putin also called some of the sanctions adopted against the North Korean communist regime “inhumane” today and called for its lifting.

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