{"id":13921,"date":"2026-05-12T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/13921\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:38:59","slug":"north-korea-belarus-leaders-meet-in-pyongyang-sign-friendship-treaty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/13921\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea, Belarus leaders meet in Pyongyang, sign friendship treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Belarus<\/a>‘ President Alexander Lukashenko<\/a> and North Korean<\/a> leader Kim Jong Un<\/a> held talks in North Korea\u2019s capital on Thursday and signed a friendship and cooperation treaty.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko, who was in Pyongyang<\/a> on a two-day official visit, hailed the document as \u201cfundamental,\u201d and said that relations between the two countries are \u201centering a new stage,\u201d according to his press service.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, we didn\u2019t have close cooperation, largely due to our own fault. But I am sincerely pleased to note that cooperation has now significantly intensified,\u201d Lukashenko said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn today\u2019s reality of a global transformation, when the global powers openly ignore and violate international law, independent countries need to cooperate more closely, consolidate efforts aimed at protecting their sovereignty and improving the well-being of our citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko\u2019s press service quoted Kim expressing \u201csolidarity and full support\u201d for Belarus and speaking out \u201cagainst unlawful pressure on Belarus from the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belarus is a close ally of Russia. Lukashenko allowed Moscow to use Belarusian territory as a staging ground for the Kremlin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and later authorized the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.<\/p>\n

Kim has also tilted his foreign policy toward Moscow in recent years, sending thousands of troops and large quantities of weapons to support Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine while portraying the North as part of a united front against Washington.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko and Kim last met in September 2025 in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-13921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pyongyang","8":"tag-pyongyang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}