Putin signed a law on Saturday ratifying the comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between Moscow and Pyongyang. The Russian leader first inked the deal with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un during his June visit to Pyongyang.
As the Russia-Ukraine war remained at its peak, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, signed legislation for ratification of the strategic bilateral treaty between North Korea and Moscow. The ratification came when Ukraine, South Korea, and the US claimed thousands of North Korean soldiers are currently deployed near the Ukrainian border.
According to Tass, a Russian news outlet, Putin signed the law on Saturday to ratify the treaty on a comprehensive strategic partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang. Russian leader Putin first signed the deal with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to Pyongyang in June this year.
Early this month, both the lower and upper houses of the Russian parliament passed a ratification bill before Putin signed it. Controversial in its nature, the treaty stipulates that if one of the parties is invaded and falls into a state of war, the other party will mobilize all means at its disposal to provide military and other assistance without delay.
North Korean troops clash with Ukrainian forces in Kursk. Earlier this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that North Korean troops stationed in Russia’s Kursk region have indeed engaged with the Ukrainian forces on the battlefield. According to Zelenskyy, there are 11,000 North Korean troops stationed in the region, where Ukraine’s three-month military incursion into Russian territory has stalled.
“Eleven thousand North Korean soldiers or soldiers of the North Korean army are currently present on the territory of the Russian Federation in the border with Ukraine on the north of our country in the Kursk region,” Zelensky told reporters at the European Political Community summit in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday.
