{"id":1129031,"date":"2026-08-04T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1129031\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T02:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:42:17","slug":"russian-military-help-could-strengthen-north-korean-forces-over-time-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1129031\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian military help could strengthen North Korean forces over time: Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian assistance does not appear to have directly strengthened North Korea\u2019s military yet, but the rapid and expanding cooperation between the two countries could boost Pyongyang\u2019s armed forces over the medium to long term, Japan\u2019s Ministry of Defense (MOD) warned in its latest white paper released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The annual report on regional security developments and the activities of the MOD and Self-Defense Forces described North Korea\u2019s military as posing \u201can even more grave and imminent threat\u201d to Japan\u2019s national security than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The MOD identified deepening Russia-North Korea military cooperation as one of the most significant developments affecting regional security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian assistance does not appear to have directly strengthened North Korea\u2019s military yet, but the rapid and expanding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1129032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[95012,95013,332],"class_list":["post-1129031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-foreign-relations","tag-military-affairs","tag-russia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117034938737785381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}