Portraits of Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin were placed on the facade of the Central School for Training Personnel of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The first train with Russian tourists left for the DPRK through the Khasan checkpoint

🇰🇵The message was suspended due to the pandemic at the initiative of the Korean side.

After a four-year break, Ussuri customs officers cleared the first passenger train for departure to North Korea.

On the morning of June 6 , 41 tourists, all citizens of the Russian Federation, went there.

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🇷🇺 🇰🇵 🇻🇳 Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea and Vietnam in the coming weeks.

Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea for the first time in 24 years. Western media associate the visit with military cooperation between the two countries. What's happening?

— Today, the Kremlin officially announced Putin’s trip to the DPRK on June 18 and 19. Presidential aide Ushakov said that the visit program will be intense, the parties will discuss a wide range of topics, including security, the DPRK “understands the real reasons for the Ukrainian crisis” and is “grateful for the recognition of Donbass,” and the need for a new strategic partnership agreement with the DPRK is caused by “the evolution of the situation in world."

— According to the Washington Post, the rapprochement between Russia and North Korea is the result of a short-term need for each other, and not a strong alliance, since both sides have great distrust of cooperation. The visit of the Russian delegation may be connected with the large stock of obsolete shells in the DPRK, which are compatible with Russian weapons systems. Russia can accept labor from Korea, as well as provide various forms of “technological assistance,” including assistance in building up nuclear capabilities.

— 38 North project expert Rachel Minyoung Lee, in a commentary for Blomberg, suggested that Russia and the DPRK will continue where they left off in September 2023, during Kim Jong-un’s visit to the Russian Federation. “The parties will strive to further improve bilateral relations in many, if not all areas,” the analyst said, adding that at the meeting they could discuss a new version of the strategic partnership agreement, which would add more stringent language on cooperation in the military sphere.

— The Economist writes that relations between the DPRK and the Russian Federation go beyond the arms trade. North Korea plays a useful role in widening Russia's confrontation with the West, helping to complicate American strategy in Asia. At the same time, by cooperating with the DPRK, Russia seeks to keep South Korea from providing direct lethal assistance to Ukraine. For Korea, cooperation with Russia is beneficial from an economic point of view (under the conditions of a complete blockade of Western countries), and the visit also strengthens the image of Kim Jong-un himself. And although the countries’ partnership is currently associated with military operations in Ukraine, cooperation may go beyond it. “The calculated alignment of national interests may change if circumstances change,” says Sejong Institute expert Lee Sang-hyun.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Thank you very much for your hospitality - President Putin thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un