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The feedback I have on the agreement — it was a broad agreement that's not overly binding, which gives you an indication (that) they want to work together but they don't want to get their hands tied,
We've got someone else who's kind of nudging in now, so that may drive a little bit more friction between (China) and Russia,
Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters during an overseas trip The treaty that Putin signed with Kim Jong-un was a return to the cold war, but of course in the cold war North Korea had no nuclear weapons,
said Dr Edward Howell, the Korea Foundation fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House, and a lecturer at the University of Oxford The agreement sends yet another signal that Putin is willing to put his war of aggression against Ukraine above all other interests, including promoting and safeguarding the nonproliferation regime – a regime that the Soviet Union really helped to establish in the first place,
Russia has now put in writing just how willing and committed it is to deepening and expanding its cooperation with North Korea,
said Jamie Kwong, a fellow in the nuclear policy programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace There’s a lot that Russia can still give North Korea at this juncture that would significantly improve North Korea’s ability to reconstitute its conventional military deterrent,
said Ankit Panda, the Stanton senior fellow in the nuclear policy programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The two leaders really just don’t care,
Russia is well aware of its dependency on China, and it may be looking to North Korea as a ledge off of that dependency."
I do believe this relationship will benefit both
I think there is real danger there,
The situation is becoming increasingly dangerous, and Russia believes that it should quickly rap the West over its knuckles to show that its deeper engagement in the war will have a price,
he said in remarks carried by Dozhd, an independent Russian broadcaster This is deeply concerning because of the substantial overlap between the technologies used for space launches and intercontinental ballistic missiles,
Terry said in a commentary Whether this upgraded Russia–North Korea relationship will be without limits depends upon China,
said Edward Howell of Chatham House in a commentary The question for Western policymakers now is whether Putin is becoming comparably reckless,
Sestanovich said in a commentary They are escalating the situation, apparently expecting that we will get scared at some point, and at the same time, they say that they want to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield,
I wouldn’t exclude that in view of our agreements with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
We can similarly say that we supply something to somebody but have no control over what happens afterward,
If that happens, then we will also make corresponding decisions that will hardly please the current leadership of South Korea,
The new partnership has deepened an already intensifying relationship of convenience,
Gabrielle Reid, associate director at strategic intelligence firm S-RM, told Newsweek in emailed comments China has also notably kept a distance from the agreement to avoid overt damage to cooperation with Western trade partners or give an undue spotlight to the deal as a tripartite agreement,