Vladimir Putin confirms military assistance treaty signed with dictator Kim Jong-un after sending North Korean troops to Russia

Vladimir Putin confirmed this Saturday Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty signed between Russia’s regimes north korea last June and which includes a mutual military assistance clause in the event of aggression, while Ukraine and the West condemn the presence of North Korean troops on Russian territory.

Related documents, published on the Russian State Legal Information Portal, Provides that if one of the signatory parties comes under armed attack, the other will immediately provide military and other assistance.

Putin and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un He signed the treaty during the first visit by a Kremlin chief to Pyongyang in nearly a quarter century.

According to Ukraine and some of its allies, the North Korean regime has already deployed about 11,000 troops to Russia. Some of them may have already joined Russian troops fighting Ukrainian forces The Russian region of Kursk borders Ukraine and has been partially captured by Kiev forces since August.

Russia, which has so far neither confirmed nor denied the presence of North Korean troops on its territory, assures that the treaty with the Pyongyang regime “is of a defensive nature and is not directed against the security of third countries “

The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, warned this Saturday in Kiev that the addition of North Korean troops to Russian troops fighting against Ukraine represents a “Globalization of War” Which will have consequences both in the region and in the Far East.

Borel shed light Need to increase diplomatic pressure on North Korea His recent visit to South Korea to prevent Pyongyang from sending more troops to fight Russia and to coordinate responses with Seoul is a step in this direction.

The head of European diplomacy insisted Ukraine’s Western partners should be allowed to use their weapons to attack military targets located within the Russian Federation, a demand from Kiev that has not yet received the green light.

On the other hand, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr ZelenskyHe assured on Thursday North Korean soldiers fighting in the ranks of the Russian army against Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region have already suffered their first casualties in the war.

“Yes, the damage has already been done. It is a fact”Zelensky said in Budapest at a press conference held at the end of the European Political Community summit held in the Hungarian capital.

Zelensky once again warned that Putin is watching the reaction of the international community to the entry of another country’s regular troops into the war. and it shows up again Confident that Putin will add more foreign troops to his forces if this first deployment does not receive a stronger and more concrete Western response

Ukraine’s allies have given as much so far.

“Putin always looks at what the world’s reaction is, and at the moment the reaction is not enough,” Ukraine’s head of state concluded.

Despite continued Russian pressure and the arrival of North Korean troops in the region, Ukraine controls at least 620 square kilometers of territory in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation,

Three months after the start of its surprise cross-border attack.

According to Ukrainian Army Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky, Russia is concentrating about 45,000 troops in Kursk with the aim of driving Ukrainian troops out of the area. Despite this, according to Sirsky, Ukraine “continued to destroy the enemy”, and Russia lost more than 20,000 soldiers killed (about 8,000) and wounded (about 12,200) and more than a thousand units of military equipment in the fighting at Kursk. Given.

(with information from EFE)