(Pyongyang, June 19, 2024)

We attach paramount importance to strengthening traditionally friendly and good-neighborly Russian-Korean relations, which are based on the glorious traditions of common history. Let me remind you that the Soviet Union played a significant role in the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule.

The main theses:

• We held in-depth negotiations on the entire range of issues of practical cooperation.As a result, a new interstate Agreement on comprehensive strategic partnership was signed. It sets out ambitious tasks and guidelines for deepening Russian-Korean relations in the long term.  This is a truly breakthrough document.

Our countries are sincerely interested in further active development of cooperation.

• The Agreement signed today provides, among other things, for mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the participants in this document.

Our countries consistently defend the idea of forming a more just and democratic multipolar world order.

• Both Russia and Korea pursue an independent and independent foreign policy and do not accept the language of blackmail and dictate. We oppose the practice of applying politically motivated sanctions and restrictions.
• Despite external pressure, our countries are successfully developing on a sovereign and independent basis, and have provided and will continue to provide full support to each other as true friends and good neighbors.
• The propaganda cliches reproduced by Westerners over and over again are no longer able to mask aggressive geopolitical intentions, including in the Northeast Asia region. Our assessments of the root causes of the escalation of military and political tensions coincide. This is the confrontational policy of the United States to expand its military infrastructure in the subregion, which is accompanied by a significant increase in the scale and intensity of various military exercises involving the Republic of Korea and Japan, which are hostile to the DPRK.
• Russia is ready to continue to make political and diplomatic efforts in the interests of eliminating the threat of a recurrence of the armed conflict on the Korean peninsula and forming an architecture of long-term peace and stability based on the principle of indivisibility of security.
• I am convinced that today’s talks will contribute to the further development of friendship and partnership between Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and strengthen security throughout the region.