Russia-Ukraine war LIVE: NATO says Russia, N Korea pact shows mutual support by authoritarian powers

Russia-Ukraine war LIVE: NATO says Russia, N Korea pact shows mutual support by authoritarian powers

my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so you know there’s a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right sir in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made ear now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around Kar Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a milit AR confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War III we need to diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over POS no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 146 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Gremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court on court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what Kemal spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinsky while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to gner support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official Community foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will man man these incoming fighter jets Now kave does not have trained 56 pilots and and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it originally needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training Mar s the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party transfer off aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was B down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vadir zeny on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets Kei does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the F-16 but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president V zalinski on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of it slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered Count’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it can can not wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China’s fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years totenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that that um across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on defense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its new nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to Stock’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks but NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is H cor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on interc carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me so I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course North Kens aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know uh inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to northa right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional and alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like AIS of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military-industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and Technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine world all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg want against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception on a guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further when now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they valed strong ties and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 100 60 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the commun at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom were very very weak some of whom on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heighten in and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr Kik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at the this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is in increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so there a lot a lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right sir in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that You’ made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around K Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War 3 we need diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Navy base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over POS no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for Our Generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing an Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tron and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved to plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court on courot close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kremin spokesperson Demitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting need [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the today talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zelinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional sovereign in Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave addition Sovereign UK Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for mod fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours K started asking for us made F6 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president V zsky on Wednesday State urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of Kaki he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets ke does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 Jets and large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine ukine argues that it urgently needs to train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new F-16 ke however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president Linsky on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central aava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows a fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weap supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces cramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradx but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has Tred to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing the defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years Stenberg said that more than 23s of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has acced Ed Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that U across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fence this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to St B’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new New multi-polar World on the other hand the Pentagon it’s voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is him coroa and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on interc carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you thank you so much for joining us on Von hi thank you for having me so I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh The Works might be shifted to the to North Korea right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like axis of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh they’re really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can s bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership an engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear program meanwhile wedness day’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un aala concert State reception honor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear studies in Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they’ve valed strong ties and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the commun at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom were very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situ in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kusik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going wi train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is in increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so there a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right so in fact absolutely uh I want better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around car Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the east Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much Armament and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is where moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the red visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of Havana as per sources the Russian Navy frate and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 M south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over POS no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force of farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the russan ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and anchoring with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tossed with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS truction and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were quote unquote close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what criminal spokesperson Demitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zens while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major nonaligned States to join their fight final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the pr condition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will man man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too limited and a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vmir zeni on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs to train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f16s Kei however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president VL zalinski on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president shei has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years Stenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish a new figures for defense spending they show that um across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fence this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to stenberg’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO are defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered part partership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening tires between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to North Korea right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the north koreanas because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like AIS of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war on Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because they are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear and so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can sort of bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon vo concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia has war in Ukraine was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception honor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times theyve Val strong ties anti West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the Global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr Kik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say French ship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so you know there’s a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right so in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed swis peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around karev Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fan FY is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need to diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the red visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frate and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 mies South of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness miss the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tsed with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tron and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advis of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court and Court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kin spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting need sported [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed toana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational princi principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fter Jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets Now kave does not have trained 56 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the 16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it orginally needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too limited and a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hour KF started asking for us made F16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vadir zeny on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parity with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets ke does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims it’s a Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft C are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough UK ukan fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but us President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president vlir zalinsky on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of har he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest russan missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dow the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces cramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president shei has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years Stenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish a new figures for defense spending they show that um across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the big increase in decades um and um 23 allies are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of of storage and placing them on standby reacting to stock B’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible when imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pongyang it’s called the country’s partnership in engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon it’s voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of the stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you no we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to to North Korea all right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans cuz that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like AIS of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that You’ made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear and so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free if you can are bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon vo concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula U but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to nor Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile wedness day’s agenda includes oneon-one discussions between puan and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception honor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they’ve Val strong ties and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the community commun at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr Kik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has Been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so there a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move s a multipolar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right say in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around Kar Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War II we need to diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your Insight on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as the Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokes person Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court and Court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridicu the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what K spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from m major nonaligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic principl of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets Now kave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgin needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party trans transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vadir zinsky on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out Quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch 22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president vlir zinsky on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years Tober said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that um across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on defense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to stenberg’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two new nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me so I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians are other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some realistic significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to North Korea right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea idea that you actually have the sort of like aess of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh they’re really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so for the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complexes it’s fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can s bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and now that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon Bo concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception honor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they valed strong ties and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom were very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided five million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knoow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kusik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going WIA train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look at to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is in increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right so in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed swis peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think the visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they open up the new front in Northeast around Kar Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the ti of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need to diplomacy as guttera and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy wessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over POS no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the water in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force of farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unreputable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing an Anchorage with them at the port for several days the Brigade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic besides the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tron and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advis to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Gremlin spokesperson Dimitri Pesco reporters the result of the meeting were court and Court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what K spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting need norted supported [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinsky while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate know the strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation ukra has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav ukra this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets now K does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it originally needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours kid started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vadir zeny on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks in a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now it’s challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets ke does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims it’s Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the trained pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president V zalinsky on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of it slowing down Nat Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the conf question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president shei has TR to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years totenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that um across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fence this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing in them on standby reacting to sten’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be irresponsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for EXC ating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon it’s voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science National University sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening tires between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it’s see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russian for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the north Kens aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know incate fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to to North Korea right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now I have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like access of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war on Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship is Bloom so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can start bargain these shells to get Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception onor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of hist and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA have to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they’ valed strong ties anti West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clear in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the the end of the summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kusik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going WIA train Russia has been inst strumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard guard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weaken position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly Beed or ended so you know there’s a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh rer in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they open up the new front in Northeast around K Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need to diplomacy as gas and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor kosnik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in Havana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States in Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and well wishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean I as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new zeron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Zone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterant to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court and Court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russ Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kremin spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukraine president vadir zilinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to G support from major non Ed States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN char thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will make man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party transfer off air from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vair zeni on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks in a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its School House in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out Quests for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Kei however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch 22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainers need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president V zalinsky on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parity with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continued to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers fa power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more cred B our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China s accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War I and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compared to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last 2 years Stenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about 140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to to publish new figures for defense spending they show that uh across Europe and Canada uh NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to sten’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks but NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on interc carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians are the North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the north korein aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inate fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to to North Korea and right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like aess of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that You’ made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can s bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of New multi-polar World the Pentagon voic concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula U but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception on our guards documents signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times Val strong tires and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what he used to either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kusik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this trans transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so there a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right say in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around K Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War II we need to diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to kind of start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in Havana Harbor last week just hours after the the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the conference of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessel left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the well because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the Brigade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlant take Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that track the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in a latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit fut Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were Court un courot close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kremin spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting e [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions and the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official found principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate to strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first 16 figh Jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will man man these incoming fighter jets now K does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its pilot are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintain that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out Quest from Mor fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough Juds for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party transfer off aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainance ERS need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vair zeni on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Kei however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president V zinsky on Wednesday they urge Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now ours off to the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound ukra Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 20 9 month and no signs of it slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered countries forces cramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the half to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blocks Chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compared to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GD DP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years totenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that U across Europe and Canada uh NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on defense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nule nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to stock B’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon it’s voiced concerns about the growing ties between mosco and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolster partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that U the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um know we we just don’t know right of course the north Kore aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to to North Korea right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pagan of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like aess of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear and so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can sort of bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me Russia and North Korea have signed a new treaty that both leaders said was a breakthrough document that takes their relations to a whole new level right Shan in NSF against the West Putin said that strategic partnership commits both countries to a mutual defense Clause under which both the Nations will help each other in repelling external aggression if either of them is attacked he added that under the treaty Russia will not rule out Military technical cooperation with the dprk while calling for a review of what Russia holds the restrictive regime inspired by the US and its allly at the UN Security Council towards the dprk further Putin claimed that Russia and North Korea have an independent foreign policy and do not tolerate the language of blackmail and dictating further details in this next report take a look Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed a mutual defense PCT on Wednesday promising to help each other if attacked Putin has qued Kim with gifts of limousines and a tour of Russia’s new space launch Center as well as steepening military cooperation which has alarmed the United States and its Asian allies Kim spoke at a rare press conference announcing the signing of a comprehensive strategic partnership our two countries relations have been elevated to the new higher level of an alliance laying the legal groundwork for the grand ideas of leadership of the two countries and longing of our people to build a strong country while firmly protecting the peace and Security in the region and the world in line with the common interest of the democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation at the start of their Summit Kim expressed unconditional support for all of Russia’s policies including a full support and firm Alliance for Putin’s war with Ukraine Russian media reported Putin said Moscow was fighting the hegemonic imperialist policy of the United States and its allies we highly appreciate your consistent and unwavering support for Russian policy including the Ukrainian strand I’m referring to our fight against the hegemonic policy imposed for decades the imperialist policy of the United States and its satellites against the Russian Federation this was Putin’s first visit to North Korea in 24 years he received a lavish welcome in pongyang the visit will likely reshape Decades of russan North Career relations at a time when both face International isolation sa and Washington are watching closely and have expressed concern about the two countries growing military ties the reaction from China the North’s main political and economic benefactor and an increasingly important Ally for Moscow has been muted Russia has used its warming ties with North Korea to needle Washington while heavily sanctioned North Korea has won political backing and Promises of economic support and trade from Moscow the United States and its allies say they fear Russia could provide aid for North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs which are banned by un Security Council resolutions they have also accused Pyongyang of providing ballistic missiles and artillery shells that Russia used in its war in Ukraine Russia and North Korea have signed a new treaty that both leaders said was a breakthrough document that takes their relations to new levels the agreement agreed upon by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is aimed at expanding the economic and Military cooperation of both countries and cement a united front against Washington in a biger intercession against the West Putin say the Strategic partnership commits both countries to a mutual defense clause or clause laws under which both countries will help each other in repelling external aggression if either of them is attacked he added that under the treaty Russia will not rule out Military technical cooperation with the dprk while calling for a review of what Russia holds the restrictive regime inspired by the US and its allies at the United Nations security Council towards the dprk father Putin claimed that Russia and Korea have an independent foreign policy and do not tolerate the language of blackmail and dictate it Putin also made it a point to thank pongyang for its support of moscow’s war in Ukraine on his part Kim Jong Un called the treaty defensive and he praised Putin as North Korea’s dearest friend the North Korean leader said relations between North Korea and Russia have reisen to a new high level of Alliance Kim say the P will expand coroporation in the areas of politics economy and defense colon it strictly peaceloving and defensive in nature Putin Drew attention to statements by the United States and other NATO countries which have agreed to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with Western supplied weapons Kim Jong-un said that North Korea intends to further improve its strategic cooperation with Russia he added that Pon yangang will also unconditionally support all of Russia’s policies earlier this year Russia provided a major reprieve for pongyang by using its veto power at the United Nations to effectively end official United Nations monitoring of sanctions on North Korea Putin arrived at pongy Yang’s airport ear on Wednesday making his first triat to the North Korean capital in 24 years after Kim welcomed Putin with an Embrace North Korean State media say the two shared pent up inmost thoughts on the ride to the State Guest House Putin also invited Kim who toured the Russian Far East on a rare trip abroad in September last year to Moscow heo clink is the former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia he’s joining us from Washington DC Mr clink welcome to the show first of all what do you make of this cader between Putin and Kim and their agreement which is meant to enhance both military cooperation and quote cement a united front against Washington well thank you very much for having me today I think uh Putin’s visit to pongyang uh underscores the fact that uh Putin and Kim Jun are Pari as in arms if you will uh both represent countries that are increasingly isolated in the GL Global Community um the implications of this new defense Arrangement uh have dangerous uh impacts both regionally and globally regionally I would say based on the fact that now the US South Korean Alliance needs to take into consideration uh what the Russians would do if the North Koreans were to attack South Korea globally and particularly uh in Europe we have already seen the impact that North Korean Munitions have had on the Russian war effort against Ukraine um so this new Arrangement uh I think just foreshadows increased danger and instability globally Mr clink what will eventually come out of this historic meeting with we’ve seen uh the Embrace between Putin and we’ve seen the Embrace between Putin and um Kim Jong-un what significance will it have on the world order we are talking about two nuclear Nations having agreements signing agreements amidst a war well I I don’t think we can underestimate uh the dangerous precedent here you know you recall in the era after 911 there was talk of this uh axis of Evil now I think there’s more and more talk of this Arc of authoritarianism uh not just Moscow Pyongyang but also Teran and uh and Beijing as well I think what’s dangerous here in particular is the fact that Russia finds itself in all of its bilateral relations with these other authority and States as the junior partner a country that is now dependent on the likes of places like Teran and pangang for Military Support those countries are going to want something in return and the reality is that what Russia has to offer these other Pariah States is Advanced military technology and that will have dangerous ramifications Mr clink Putin says that uh Russia and North Korea have an independent foreign policy and do not tolerate the language of blackmail and dictate I’m so sure he was talking to the west and especially the US what do you think will be Washington’s response to his visit to North Korea and this statement well first of all I would say that it’s somewhat ironic uh in light of Putin’s recent remarks as to preconditions for peace with Ukraine so I mean again he he in that in that public statement last week d dictated uh his preconditions for a peace agreement from Ukraine and it was very very one-sided very very one way I think the United States in conjunction with its partners and allies not just in the Indo Pacific but more and more also I would say in Europe will have to come up with mitigating strategies to ensure again that this Arc of authoritarianism uh is kept in check because again we can no longer limit our elves to uh solitary unitary actions in one part of the world uh because we I think have seen growing coordination and and uh collaboration between these countries uh and we need to be able to uh ensure that we can respond effectively I’ve been talking to Mr Hao clink is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia Mr clink is in Washington DC Mr clink thank you for talking to we on W is one today thank you Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Vietnam for a state visit after his two-day trip to North Korea this is the Russian President’s first visit to Vietnam since 2017 and is the final stop on his two Nation Tour of Asia on his arrival in Hanoi Putin received a red carpet welcome he is scheduled to meet with wa nam’s most powerful lawmakers Communist Party General Secretary and the president well Putin is expected to push for closer ties with Vietnam through cooperation in defense currency trade and building on longstanding bilateral ties he’s also expected to seek support as Moscow faces International isolation over its invasion of Ukraine the visit comes after Putin and Kim Jong own wow to deepen trade and security ties and support each other against the United States of America ahead of his arrival Putin praised Vietnam for its balanced stance on the Ukraine war in an opinion piece published in the newspaper of Vietnam’s Community party Vietnam which officially pursues a neutral foreign policy has not condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine [Music] after making the red visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frate and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the conference of Russian Canadian and US vessels in kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana haror the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the Brigade hmcs was tossed with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic besides the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Kuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets Now kave does not have train 56 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian pilot not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it originally needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough J for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours K started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vaim zensi on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of Kaki he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia and hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine and in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central PVA region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several highrise buildings as well according to local authorities that dowsed the fire over 53,000 private and 2004 100 Industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to the power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supplies for Ukraine as the batted country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blocks Chief also urged for countries supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president shei has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on interc carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war was kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um know we we just don’t know right of course the north korein aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to North Korea right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans CU that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like access of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russ and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made ear ear as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite systems so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has Bloom so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can start bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me and North Korea have signed a new treaty that both leaders said was a breakthrough document that takes their relations to a whole new level right Shan in an assertion against the West Putin said that strategic partnership commits both countries to a mutual defense Clause under which both the Nations will help each other in repelling external aggression if either of them is attacked he added that under the treaty Russia will not rule out Military technical cooperation with the dprk while calling for a review of what Russia holds the restrictive regime inspired by the US and its allies at the UN Security Council towards the dprk further Putin claimed that Russia and North Korea have an independent foreign policy and do not tolerate the language of blackmail and dictating further details in this next report take a look Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed a mutual defense pact on Wednesday promising to help each other if attacked Putin has courted Kim with gifts of limousines and a tour of Russia’s new space launch Center as well as steepening military cooperation which has alarmed the United States and its Asian allies Kim spoke at a rare press conference announcing the signing of a comprehensive strategic partnership our two countries relations have been elevated to the new higher level of an alliance laying the legal groundwork for the grand ideas of leadership of the two countries and longing of our people to build a strong country while firmly protecting the peace and Security in the region and the world in line with the common interest of the democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation at the start of their Summit Kim expressed unconditional support for all of Russia’s policies including a full support and firm Alliance for Putin’s War with Ukraine Russian media reported Putin said Moscow was fighting the hegemonic imperialist policy of the United States and its allies we highly appreciate your consistent and unwavering support for Russian policy including the Ukrainian strand I’m referring to our fight against the hegemonic policy imposed for decades the imperialist policy of the United States and its satellites against the Russian Federation this was Putin’s first visit to North Korea in 24 years he received a lavish welcome in Pyongyang the visit will likely reshape Decades of Russia North Korea relations at a time when both face International isolation sa and Washington are watching closely and have expressed concern about the two countries growing military ties the reaction from China the North’s main political and economic benefactor and an increasingly important Ally for Moscow has been muted Russia has used its warming ties with North Korea to needle Washington while heavily sanctioned North Korea has won political backing and Promises of economic support and trade from Moscow the United States and its allies say they fear Russia could provide aid for North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs which are banned by un Security Council resolutions they have also accused Pyongyang of providing ballistic missiles and artillery shells that Russia has used in its war in Ukraine Russia and North Korea have signed a new treaty that both leaders said was a breakthrough document that takes their relations to new levels the agreement agreed upon by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is aimed at expanding the economic and Military cooperation of both countries and cement a united front against Washington in a belligerant assertion against the West Putin said the Strategic partnership commits both countries to a mutual defense clouds or claws under which both countries will help each other in repelling external aggression if either of them is attacked he added that under the treaty Russia will not rule out Military technical coroporation with the dprk while calling for a review of what Russia holds the restrictive regime inspired by the US and its allies at the United Nations security Council towards the dprk father Putin claimed that Russia and Korea have an independent foreign policy and do not tolerate the language of blackmail and dictate it Putin also made it appoint to thank pongyang for its support of moscow’s war in Ukraine on his part Kim Jong-un called the treaty defensive while he praised Putin as North Korea’s dearest friend the North Korean leader relations between North Korea and Russia have risen to a new high level of Alliance Kim say the par will expand cooperation in the areas of politics economy and defense colonic strictly peace loving and defensive in nature Putin Drew attention to statements by the United States and other NATO countries which have agreed to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with Western Supply weapons Kim Jong Un said that North Korea intends to further improve its strategic cooperation with Russia he added that pongyang will also unconditionally support all of Russia’s policies earlier this year Russia provided a major reprieve for pongyang by using its veto power at the United Nations to effectively end official United Nations monitoring of sanctions on North Korea Putin arrived at pong y’s airport early on Wednesday making his first strep to the North Korean capital in 24 years after Kim welcomed Putin with an Embrace North Korean State media say the two shared pent up inmost thoughts on the ride to the state Guest House Putin also invited Kim who toured the Russian Far East on a rare trip abroad in September last year to Moscow he no clink is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia he’s joining us from Washington DC Mr clink welcome to the show first of all what do you make of this camaraderie between Putin and Kim and their agreement which is meant to enhance both military cooperation and quote cement a united front against Washington well thank you very much for having me today I think uh Putin’s visit to Pyongyang underscores the fact that uh Putin and Kim Juno are parayas in arms if you will uh both represent countries that are increasingly isolated in the global Community um the implications of this new defense Arrangement uh have dangerous uh impacts both regionally and globally regionally I would say based on the fact that that now the US South Korean Alliance needs to take into consideration uh what the Russians would do if North Koreans were to attack South Korea globally and particularly uh in Europe we have already seen the impact that North Korean Munitions have had on the Russian war effort against Ukraine um so this new Arrangement uh I think just foreshadow increased danger and instability globally Mr clink what will eventually come out of this historic meeting we’ve seen uh the Embrace between Putin and we’ve seen the Embrace between Putin and um Kim Jong-un what significance will it have on the world order we are talking about two nuclear Nations having agreements signing agreements amidst a war well I I don’t think we can underestimate uh the dangerous precedent here you know you recall in the era after 9911 there was talk of this uh axis of Evil now I think there’s more and more talk of this Arc of authoritarianism uh not just Moscow pangang but also Teran and uh and Beijing as well I think what’s dangerous here in particular is the fact that Russia finds itself in all of its bilateral relations with these other authoritarian States as the junior partner a country that is now dependent on the likes of places like Tran and pangang for Military Support those countries are going to want something in return and the reality is that what Russia has to offer these other Pariah States is Advanced military technology and that will have dangerous ramifications Mr clink Putin says that uh Russia and North Korea have an independent foreign policy and do not tolerate the language of blackmail and dictating I’m so sure he was talking to the west and especially the US what do you think will be Washington’s response to his visit to North Korea and this statement well first of all I would say that it’s somewhat ironic uh in light of Putin’s recent remarks as to preconditions for peace with Ukraine so I mean again he he in that in that public statement last week dictated uh his preconditions for a peace agreement from Ukraine and it was very very one-sided very very oneway I think the United States in conjunction with its partners and allies not just in the Indo Pacific but more and more also I would say in Europe will have to come up with mitigating strategies to ensure again that this Arc of authoritarianism uh is kept in check because again we can no longer limit ourselves to uh solitary unitary actions in one part of the world uh because we I think have seen growing coordination and and uh collaboration between these countries uh and we need to be able to uh ensure that we can respond effectively I’ve been talking to Mr Hao clink he’s the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia Mr clink is in Washington DC Mr clink thank you for talking to weon Wild is one today thank you Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Vietnam for a state visit after his two-day trip to North Korea this is the Russian President’s first visit to Vietnam since 2017 and is the final stop on his two Nation Tour of Asia on his arrival in Hanoi Putin received a red carpet welcome he shed

Russia’s new defensive pact with North Korea shows increasing alignment among authoritarian powers and underscores the importance of democracies presenting a united front, the head of NATO said on Wednesday (June 19).
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