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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Sunday it has agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia to establish a \u201cnew multi-polarized international order,\u201d as the two countries work to build a united front in the face of their separate, intensifying tensions with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In describing North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui\u2019s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov in Moscow last week, the North\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Putin also reaffirmed his willingness to visit Pyongyang and said that could come at an \u201cearly date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Korea has been actively strengthening its ties with Russia, highlighted by leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s September visit to Russia for a summit with Putin. Kim is trying to break out of diplomatic isolation and strengthen his footing as he navigates a deepening nuclear standoff with Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a separate statement on Sunday, the North\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned the U.N. Security Council for calling an emergency meeting over the country\u2019s latest ballistic test, which state media described as a new intermediate-range solid-fuel missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead. The ministry said the test-firing on Jan. 14 was among the country\u2019s regular activities to improve its defense capabilities and that it didn\u2019t pose a threat to its neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Korea on Thursday urged the Security Council \u201cto break the silence\u201d over North Korea\u2019s escalating missile tests and threats. Russia and China<\/a>, both permanent members of the council, have blocked U.S.-led efforts to increase sanctions on North Korea over its recent weapons tests, underscoring a divide deepened over Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Sunday it has agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia to establish a \u201cnew multi-polarized international order,\u201d as the two countries work to build a united front in the face of their separate, intensifying tensions with the United States. In describing North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui\u2019s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov in Moscow last week, the North\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Putin also reaffirmed his willingness to visit Pyongyang and said that could come at an \u201cearly date.\u201d North Korea has been… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37243,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37241\/revisions\/37243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}