Traditions of friendship and cooperation by the years

On the eve of my state go to to the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea, I wish to deal with the Korean and overseas viewers of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper to share my ideas on the prospects for partnership between our states and on their function in the fashionable world.

The relations of friendship and neighbourliness between Russia and the DPRK, primarily based on the ideas of equality, mutual respect and belief, return greater than seven a long time and are wealthy in wonderful historic traditions. Our peoples cherish the reminiscence of their troublesome joint battle towards Japanese militarism and honour the heroes who fell in it. In August 1945, Soviet troopers, combating shoulder to shoulder with Korean patriots, defeated the Kwantung Military, liberated the Korean peninsula from colonisers, and opened the method for the Korean folks to develop independently. As image of fight brotherhood of the two nations, a monument was erected in 1946 on the Moranbong Hill in the centre of Pyongyang to commemorate the liberation of Korea by the Purple Military.

The Soviet Union was the first among the many world’s states to recognise the younger Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea and set up diplomatic relations with it. As early as on March 17, 1949, when the founding father of the DPRK Comrade Kim Il Sung paid his first go to to Moscow, the USSR and the DPRK signed the Settlement on Financial and Cultural Cooperation, establishing a authorized framework for additional strengthening of their bilateral interplay. Our nation helped the Korean mates to construct their nationwide economic system, create a healthcare system, develop science and training, and prepare skilled administrative and technical employees.

In 1950–1953, in the course of the troublesome years of the Fatherland Liberation Warfare, the Soviet Union additionally prolonged a serving to hand to the folks of the DPRK and supported them in their battle for independence. In a while, the Soviet Union supplied vital help in restoring and strengthening the nationwide economic system of the younger Korean state and in constructing a peaceable life.

My first go to to Pyongyang in 2000 and the return go to of Comrade Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the Nationwide Defence Fee of the DPRK, to Russia the following yr marked new necessary milestones in the relations between our nations. The bilateral declarations signed again then outlined the primary priorities and areas of our constructive multidimensional partnership for years to come.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, who leads the DPRK as we speak, confidently continues the insurance policies of his predecessors – outstanding statesmen and mates of the Russian folks, Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. I had one other probability to see it after we met final September at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia.

At this time, as earlier than, Russia and the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea are actively advancing their multifaceted partnership. We extremely respect the DPRK’s unwavering help for Russia’s particular army operation in Ukraine, their solidarity with us on key worldwide issues and willingness to defend our frequent priorities and views throughout the United Nations. Pyongyang has at all times been our dedicated and like-minded supporter, able to confront the ambition of the collective West to stop the emergence of a multipolar world order primarily based on justice, mutual respect for sovereignty and consideration of one another’s pursuits.

The United States goes out of its approach to impose on the world what it calls the “rules-based order”, which is basically nothing greater than a world neo-colonial dictatorship counting on double requirements. Nations that disagree with such an strategy and pursue an unbiased coverage face growing exterior strain. The US management views such a pure and legit aspiration for self-reliance and independence as a risk to its world dominance.

The United States and its satellites brazenly declare that their goal is to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia. They’re doing all the things they will to protract and additional exacerbate the battle in Ukraine, which they’ve themselves provoked by supporting and organising the 2014 armed coup in Kiev and the subsequent battle in Donbass. What’s extra, over the years they’ve repeatedly rejected all our makes an attempt to resolve the state of affairs peacefully. Russia has at all times been and will stay open to equal dialogue on all points, together with the most troublesome ones. I reiterated this at my current assembly with Russian diplomats in Moscow.

Our adversaries, in the meantime, proceed to provide the neo‑Nazi Kiev regime with cash, weapons and intelligence info, permit – and, successfully, encourage – the use of fashionable Western weapons and tools to ship strikes on the Russian territory, aiming at clearly civilian targets in most circumstances. They’re threatening to ship their troops to Ukraine. Moreover, they’re attempting to put on out Russia’s economic system with extra new sanctions and gasoline socio-political stress contained in the nation.

Irrespective of how arduous they tried, all their makes an attempt to include or isolate Russia have failed. We proceed to steadily construct up our financial functionality, develop our business, applied sciences, infrastructure, science, training and tradition.

We’re happy to be aware that our Korean mates – regardless of the years-long financial strain, provocations, blackmailing and army threats on the a part of the United States – are nonetheless successfully defending their pursuits. We see the pressure, dignity and braveness with which the folks of the DPRK battle for their freedom, sovereignty and nationwide traditions, attaining large outcomes and real breakthroughs in strengthening their nation in phrases of defence, expertise, science and business. At the identical time, the nation’s management and its head Comrade Kim Jong Un have repeatedly expressed their intention to resolve all of the current variations by peaceable means. However Washington, refusing to implement earlier agreements, retains setting new, more and more harsh and clearly unacceptable necessities.

Russia has incessantly supported and will help the DPRK and the heroic Korean folks in their battle towards the treacherous, harmful and aggressive enemy, in their battle for independence, identification and the proper to freely select their growth path.

We’re additionally able to intently work collectively to deliver extra democracy and stability to worldwide relations. To do that, we are going to develop various commerce and mutual settlements mechanisms not managed by the West, collectively oppose illegitimate unilateral restrictions, and form the structure of equal and indivisible safety in Eurasia.

It goes with out saying, we are going to develop people-to-people interplay between our nations. We plan to promote tutorial mobility between Russian and Korean greater training establishments, mutual vacationer journeys as effectively as cultural, academic, youth and sports activities exchanges – all the things that makes communication between nations and nations people-centred, all the things that enhances confidence and mutual understanding.

I am satisfied that our joint efforts will take our bilateral interplay to a greater degree, which is able to facilitate mutually helpful and equal cooperation between Russia and the DPRK, strengthen our sovereignty, promote commerce and financial ties, people-to-people contacts and, in the end, enhance the well-being of the residents of each states.

I wish to prolong needs of good well being to Comrade Kim Jong Un and these of peace and nice success on the path of growth – to the pleasant folks of the DPRK.

This text first appeared within the Rodong Sinmun newspaper

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