North Korea's Kim boasts of 'invincible' ties with Russia amid talks of Putin visit

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country is an "invincible comrade-in-arms" with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin, state media KCNA said on Wednesday, amid speculation over Putin's impending visit to North Korea.

Marking Russia's National Day, Kim said his meeting with Putin at a Russian space launch facility last year elevated the ties of their "century-old strategic relationship".

The message came after Russia's Vedomosti newspaper on Monday reported Putin would visit North Korea and Vietnam in the coming weeks.

Kim also lauded Russia for achieving results on its efforts to build a strong country despite by "suppressing and crushing all the challenges and sanctions and pressures of hostile forces".

Pyongyang and Moscow have increasingly stepped up diplomatic and security relations, hosting government, parliamentary and other delegations in recent months.

The traitors and fools in DC have transformed Little Rocket Man, trained to heel by DJT, into a major arms supplier for Russia and Iran and a strategic global nuclear power. It’s not only Korea, the DC Deep State has replicated this foreign relations debacle around the entire world.

View all things through the prism of energy, usually oil, though in this case, coal.

There is always the extra “why” question. Why was there war with Japan? Because they bombed Pearl Harbor. But why did they bomb Pearl Harbor?

Because in the Great Depression of the 1930s only one thing evolved inexorably — the US became the world’s Saudi Arabia. The big exporter of oil. FDR decided he would use oil to dictate another country’s foreign policy. Namely, Japan’s, whose invasion of Manchuria (just north of N. Korea) he wanted stopped. He cut off oil exports to Japan to stop their motorized forces. Japan faced a future of humiliation without oil, so they decided flow from Indonesia must be ensured and that meant the US fleet at Pearl must be hit.

N. Korea has coal. Geology doesn’t care about politics. That region is hydrocarbon rich. Manchuria still flows oil (the source of China’s 4.5 million barrels per day) and N. Korea has coal. All these decades of sanctions changed nothing because of coal. Coal is a number of joules per ton and that number is not determined by trading on a market in a hostile country.

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