Putin invites Kim Jong Un to Moscow

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...jong-un-moscow

Vladimir Putin invites Kim Jong-un to Moscow

North Korea’s leader may travel to Russia to mark the USSR’s victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May as mark of closer relations


The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has invited the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to Moscow next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war, the Kremlin’s spokesman said on Friday.

It would be Kim’s first foreign visit since taking the helm of the reclusive east Asian state in 2011. His personal envoy travelled to Moscow last month as part of efforts by the two Cold War-era allies to improve relations.

“Yes, such an invitation was sent,” a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the state news agency, Tass. Russia marks the former Soviet Union’s 1945 victory every year on 9 May.

Moscow needs North Korean cooperation to boost its natural gas exports to South Korea as Gazprom would like to build a gas pipeline through North Korea to reach its southern neighbour.

Pyongyang is also seeking support from Russia, a permanent veto-wielding member of the UN security council, against international criticism relating to accusations of human rights abuses and its nuclear programme.

A UN committee passed a resolution last month calling for the security council to consider referring North Korea to the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity.

The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has also said North Korea is ready to resume the stalled international talks on its nuclear programme.

North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the United States began talks in 2003 to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, but they were suspended after Pyongyang tested nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009.

[HeavyMenace]

Talk about ulterior motives

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Supervillain team up!

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Talk about ulterior motives

Putin has all ready erased all but 10% of True Korea's debt to Russia. This is not surprising.

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They are both loose cannons. I fully support all the loose cannons coming together so we can re-brandish the Axis of Evil rhetoric we were using in the old-Bush days and get rid of them all under the banner of democracy.

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That whole concept of "Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany" is ridiculous anyway, because the final strikes were made by US/UK/Canada/some French. It is also obscene and sickening thing to celebrate, as it disregards the death of 25-55mil people (depending a lot on who you ask and definitions) killed in cleansings orchestrated by Stalin.

Half of Europe was invaded by Stalin, innocent people were killed, tortured and women were raped. Allies didn't do anything, they actually helped Stalin to make all this happen. Finnish cities were also invaded, my grandpa, 9 at the time managed to escape but his father was killed by the Soviets.

Finland, wrecked by false flag-justified invasion (condemned at the time by League of Nations) was having a shortage of food and other necessities and we had lost third of our land. Rubbing salt in the wound in travesty of justice, allies made Finland pay $300million in war reparations for Stalins USSR.

tl;dr: no good sides to take in ww2

But you won't find most if this stuff in the "history books" of Russia. I gotta admit that russians are good storytellers, although maybe not as epic as North Korean stories, due to the lack of unicorns and dragons.