Russia and North Korea have signed a mutual defense pact. It is the first one since the Cold War ended.
Without the actual treaty text. It doesn’t exactly sound like a mutual defense pact in the traditional sense. Feels like the Western Media is jumping the gun early.
“The comprehensive partnership agreement signed today provides, among other things, for mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the parties to this agreement,” Tass quoted Putin as saying.
In any case, South Korea and Japan fucked around and now they are finding out
“The Russian Federation does not rule out military-technical cooperation with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in accordance with the document,” Putin added.