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Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to North Korea on Tuesday, the Kremlin has confirmed, after months of speculation over the much-hyped visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Kim Jong Un\u2019s big green bulletproof train trundled around Russia\u2019s Far East last year, the North Korean leader invited Mr. Putin to visit him. That invitation was duly accepted.<\/p>\n

Over the past week, sources had hinted that the visit was imminent, and satellite images had also spied apparent preparations under way in North Korea.<\/p>\n

With the \u201cwhen\u201d answered, next comes the clamouring for any news of deals done, any consequences for the war in Ukraine, as well as any eye-popping images of the pomp and ceremony that will surely accompany the two leaders\u2019 visit.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has described the event as a \u201cfriendly state visit\u201d with Russian media reporting Mr Putin and Mr. Kim may sign a partnership agreement, including on security issues, and give joint statements to the press.<\/p>\n

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But why does it matter and why now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firstly, there is a natural curiosity given it will only be Mr. Putin\u2019s second time in North Korea \u2013 the first being in 2000 at the start of his presidential career, when Mr. Kim\u2019s father, Kim Jong Il, was still supreme leader.<\/p>\n

But beyond that, this is a relationship that (though not at the levels enjoyed during the Soviet Union) has now gone from mutual pleasantries to mutual benefits, and it has the West worried.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has said there is scope for \u201cvery deep relations\u201d between Russia and North Korea, and although it said this shouldn\u2019t concern anyone, it recommended those thinking of challenging the burgeoning ties to think again.<\/p>\n

There has been a lot of speculation about what exactly the two sides want from one another. And it seems to boil down to security of supplies.<\/p>\n

Russia is likely seeking ammunition, construction workers, even volunteers to go to the front line in Ukraine, says political scientist and Putin ally, Sergei Markov.<\/p>\n

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In reply, Pyongyang could get Russian produce, as well as technological help for military goals, including its long-range missile programme ultimately to be within striking distance of the US, Mr Markov adds.<\/p>\n

A recent Bloomberg report, citing South Korea\u2019s defence ministry, suggests North Korea has shipped nearly five million artillery shells to Russia.<\/p>\n

Finding a partner that shares a keen disdain of sanctions and the West, and therefore one that wants to trade, is a major selling point for Russia.<\/p>\n

After all, Russia and North Korea are the two most-sanctioned countries in the world \u2013 North Korea for developing nuclear weapons and launching a series of ballistic missile tests.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Moscow dealt sanctions against Pyongyang a serious blow by vetoing a UN Security Council resolution to extend the panel overseeing them.<\/p>\n

A friendly diplomatic move<\/strong><\/p>\n

And there may even be a real friendship between the two leaders, albeit a cautious and business-like one. In February, Mr Putin gifted Mr Kim a luxury Russian limousine (in violation of UN sanctions).<\/p>\n

Mr Kim said North Korea is an \u201cinvincible comrade-in-arms\u201d with Russia in a recent message to President Putin. But it could just be business and a lack of other options.<\/p>\n

Put bluntly: North Korea is now of greater value to an isolated Russia \u2013 and North Korea sees Moscow needs friends.<\/p>\n

When Kim Jong Un visited Russia in 2023, the BBC looked at why the two leaders might want to be friends.<\/p>\n

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By visiting North Korea, Mr Putin can simply demonstrate to his detractors that he can \u2013 and will \u2013 do what he wants.<\/p>\n

Find a workaround to the Western sanctions slapped on his country? For now, yes, he can.<\/p>\n

Convince others to violate sanctions and sell Russia weapons? Apparently so.<\/p>\n

Forge new relations with countries around the world despite waging his so-called \u201cspecial military operation\u201d? He\u2019s definitely trying.<\/p>\n

Ever since President Putin ordered troops into neighbouring Ukraine, he has pushed the idea that the West\u2019s dominance is on the way out \u2013 and has courted those who agree with him or are at least open to that philosophy.<\/p>\n

At a recent economic forum in St. Petersburg, it\u2019s no accident one of Mr. Putin\u2019s key guests was the president of Zimbabwe \u2013 another country to have felt the keen sting of sanctions.<\/p>\n

And Russia has been falling over itself to show that it has many friends around the world that sing from the same hymn sheet. From Asia, Latin America, and Africa \u2013 anyone disenchanted with the ways of a US-led world is welcome.<\/p>\n

North Korea: Why Putin and Xi are courting Kim<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indeed, when Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa took to the stage, President Putin\u2019s buzzwords rocketed out of his speech, with a new \u201cmultipolar world\u201d as opposed to an arrogant West bent on shoring up its \u201cglobal hegemony\u201d at any cost.<\/p>\n

Mr Putin has also courted closer ties with Iran, another country pummelled by sanctions that is eager to sell its military wares \u2013 in Tehran\u2019s case, drones. And if it rattles the West, all the better.<\/p>\n

When President Putin finally boards his plane to Pyongyang, he knows the images will captivate the world and leave no doubt that he is willing to do both business and politics with the partners of his choosing.<\/p>\n

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And while China will have its own reservations about Russia\u2019s rapprochement with North Korea, any red lines will have been drawn when presidents Putin and Xi met during the Russian leader\u2019s first overseas trip of his fifth term in office \u2013 itself dripping with symbolism about Russia\u2019s declared shift to the East.<\/p>\n

Few countries do strongman ceremony as pompously as Russia \u2013 but North Korea can certainly give them a run for their money. And with Russia\u2019s shift away from traditional democracy, the gap between the two countries\u2019 leaderships looks to be shrinking.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t necessarily follow, of course, that ordinary Russians welcome their country\u2019s growing closeness with North Korea, given their cultural and historical ties with Europe and the West. And this is one potential risk that Mr Putin will have to live with \u2013 as well as any new steps taken by Western powers in the aftermath of the two strongmen meeting.<\/p>\n

In the end, we very likely won\u2019t find out what\u2019s been agreed \u2013 we didn\u2019t when Kim Jong Un came to Russia last year.<\/p>\n

But with watertight optics and messaging, the stage will be set for a defiant Putin to stride out \u2013 in the world\u2019s most isolated country \u2013 and declare: \u201cYes, I can \u2013 watch me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: bbc.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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