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North Korean despot Kim Jong Un sent his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a cozy New Year’s welcome — sharing that their two countries’ alliance is formed by “sharing blood, life and death.” The two nation’s have grown increasingly closer ...

By Mark Trevelyan March 25 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Pyongyang on Wednesday with a white-horse cavalry and 21-gun salute, cementing ties between two close allies ‌of Russia's Vladimir Putin.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked a North Korean military commander after North Korean troops took part in Russia's Victory Day military parade, the North's state media reported Sunday, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two countries.

“Xi has consolidated this position that Great Power politics now must go through Beijing,” one expert tells TIME.