Kochi: North Korea-Russia treaty has reignited tension in the Korean peninsula where the US, South Korea and Japan and
military exercises and Korea conducting weapon tests, media reports said.
North Korea had signed the agreement with Russia renewing the one it had entered with erstwhile Soviet Union in 1961 the other day, the reports quoting North Korean state media said.
North Korean head Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the deal in Pyongyang without any advance announcement.
This would enable the two countries to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance to each other in the event of one of the countries getting invaded and is pushed into a state of war.
This has established the strongest relationship between Moscow and Pyongyang since the end of the Cold War.
The tie up has been made amidst the US and its allies expressing growing concerns over a possible arms arrangement.
The North Korea-Soviet Union 1961 treaty was discarded after the collapse of the USSR and another one was signed in 2000 with weaker security assurances.
South Korea is yet to understand the plan of the two countries by inking the papers.
The Korean Peninsula has witnessed tense situations with North Korea conducting weapon tests and the US, South Korea and Japan conducting combined military exercises.
Two countries continued to remain good friends even after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
It became stronger after Putin became President in 2000. Kim Jong Un visited Russia in 2015. They share a 17 kms border along the Tumen River.
North Korea and Syria the countries to recognise the independence of the breakaway states of Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in eastern Ukraine.Ukraine terminated diplomatic ties with North Korea.
