The Russia-North Korea Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement Is Implementing

President Putin and Leader Kim after the signing of the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement. (Source: Kristina Kormilitsyna/Rossiya Segodnya/Kremlin)

JAKARTA - The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and North Korea comes into effect, along with the exchange of documents ratified by the two countries.

The ratification instrument of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation signed by Leader Kim Jong-un and President Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024, was officially exchanged in Moscow on December 4, state news agency KCNA reported.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Kim Jong Gyu and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Yurievich Rudenko signed the ratification instrument exchange protocol, quoted from KCNA December 5.

He explained that the agreement was valid from December 4, 2024, when the ratification instrument was exchanged, in accordance with Article 22 of the agreement.

Thus, the friendship agreement, good neighboring relations, and cooperation between the DPRK and the Russian Federation agreed on February 9, 2000 will not apply, explained KCNA.

The agreement serves as a legal framework for realizing the long-term plans for the leadership of the countries of the two countries and the wishes of the two nations, by placing bilateral relations at a new strategic level, building a strong country while firmly maintaining a regional and global security environment in accordance with common interests.

Quoted from Reuters, President Putin's visit to Pyongyang and the agreement to advance military cooperation between the two countries comes amid increasing Pyongyang's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, with more than 10,000 North Korean troops deployed to fight with Russia.