{"id":144962,"date":"2025-05-30T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144962\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:09:15","slug":"keep-north-korea-out-of-ukraine-war-or-risk-nato-coming-to-asia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144962\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep North Korea out of Ukraine war or risk NATO coming to Asia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I had objected to NATO having a role in Asia because I don\u2019t believe in being enrolled in someone else\u2019s strategic rivalry,” Macron said, hinting that Paris could revisit its stance.<\/p>\n

North Korean troops have supported the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine as part of a military pact between the two countries, with Moscow using Pyongyang’s soldiers to try push Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk region of southwestern Russia.<\/p>\n

Macron’s speech comes on the heels of an Asian tour that started with a marital dispute<\/a> and took him to Vietnam and Indonesia, where France signed a series of deals, including on defense.<\/p>\n

His trip is concluding in Singapore, where he was invited to deliver the keynote speech at the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Shangri-La Dialogue, a conference that typically draws leaders and defense ministers from around the world. Among those in attendance this year were U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas. <\/p>\n

The French president also warned against the risk of nuclear proliferation and the potential collapse of the global order established after World War II.<\/p>\n

Doubling down on France’s traditional mantra, the French president called on Asian nations to be “independent” from both the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n

“France is attached to strategic autonomy, freedom of sovereignty. We defend this approach for Europe and for the Indo-Pacific,” Macron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I had objected to NATO having a role in Asia because I don\u2019t believe in being enrolled in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[521,1395,473,34,2000,299,36,2597,602,332,7497,657,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-144962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-pete-hegseth","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-strategic-autonomy","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114598599954309837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144962","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=144962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}