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N. Korea: Putin Spokesman Confirms Kim Jong-un Invited to Visit Moscow
Moscow Times ^ | Dec. 19 2014

Posted on 12/19/2014 6:46:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Putin Spokesman Confirms Kim Jong-un Invited to Visit Moscow

Reuters

Dec. 19 2014 16:21 Last edited 16:23

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to Moscow next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the Kremlin's spokesman said Friday.

It would be Kim's first foreign visit since taking the helm of the reclusive east Asian state in 2011. His personal envoy came to Moscow last month in the framework of efforts by the two Cold War-era allies to improve relations.

"Yes, such an invitation was sent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state news agency TASS. Russia marks the former Soviet Union's World War II victory every year on May 9.

Moscow needs North Korean cooperation in boosting natural gas exports to South Korea as Gazprom wants to build a gas pipeline through North Korea to reach its southern neighbor.

Pyongyang is also seeking support from Russia, a permanent veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, against international criticism over accusations of human rights abuses and its nuclear program.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amypascal; clooney; georgeclooney; guardiansofpeace; hollywood; kimjongun; nkorea; northkorea; putin; pyongyang; russia; sony

1 posted on 12/19/2014 6:46:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

P!


2 posted on 12/19/2014 6:47:35 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Was the visit a prid-pro-quo for the SONY hack?


3 posted on 12/19/2014 6:49:28 AM PST by AU72
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Putin has very little friends. His Crimea thing was supported in UN by ONLY these countries: Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.


4 posted on 12/19/2014 7:17:14 AM PST by Krosan
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To: TigerLikesRooster
First Horrywood, then Klemrin!


5 posted on 12/19/2014 7:20:37 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Bon mots

I don’t think it’s good to back a rat into a corner.

Wisdom is needed.

We should be proactive, along with China and South Korea, to set up a managed reunification.


6 posted on 12/19/2014 7:28:00 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

BOY Harry Cohn be rolling in his grave

Sony pictures is owner of Columbia picture library if he was still alive Chia Chub be dead already


7 posted on 12/19/2014 8:42:34 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: fishtank
China does not want Korean reunification. They don't want the 2ID on it's border.

The best we can hope for is a Chinese controlled North Korea, a stable puppet state. Right now North Korea is so out there right now even China gets nervous.

8 posted on 12/19/2014 12:35:47 PM PST by Garfunkel Oates
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To: fishtank

how do you manage madmen?


9 posted on 12/19/2014 10:30:09 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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