Rockets, Goats, and Military Technology: How North Korea Tries to Find a New Friend in Putin?

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has proposed creating a consultative group with North Korea to find ways to reduce tensions between the countries and restore economic cooperation. From the DPRK side, they expect only one thing - to start nuclear disarmament.

Currently, relations between the states have become as tense as ever. At the beginning of 2024, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea "the main enemy," stated that unification into a single Korea is impossible and terminated economic cooperation agreements with it. The DPRK constantly launches garbage balloons into the territory of the Republic of Korea, shells the border of the neighboring state, and sends spy satellites. At the same time, North Korea continues to develop its nuclear program and military potential, for which it strengthens relations, in particular, with Russia. Moscow receives weapons from Pyongyang, including ballistic missiles, which it uses to strike Ukraine. As for North Korea, experts say about receiving various military technologies from Moscow. But that's not all. Russia sent the first batch of domestic animals - almost 500 goats - to the DPRK due to the lack of food in North Korea.

Journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk talks to Seoul-based legal analyst Ethan Hee-Seok Shin about the weakening of ties between South Korea and North Korea, what exactly ensured the existence of the DPRK and the operation of the Gulag on its territory, the friendship of the DPRK with Russia, and how Koreans now feel about the Japanese who colonized Korea for 35 years.