DPRK: LAVROV SMILES. DAVID MAXWELL, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.8 | Gordon Chang, at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend, and we're very |
| 0:15.9 | pleased to welcome the Vice President of the Center for Asia-Pacific Strategy, David |
| 0:20.6 | Maxwell, to comment on a CNN |
| 0:23.0 | headline in these last hours. |
| 0:26.3 | North Korea's Kim Jong-un restates unconditional support for, quote, all Russian actions in Ukraine. |
| 0:34.4 | A picture of a smiling Sergei Lavrov, the longtime foreign minister of the Russian Federation, |
| 0:40.0 | shaking hands with Kim Jong-un and what looks to be a luxury craft of some kind, like a yacht, |
| 0:47.7 | I'm guessing. A North Korean leader Kim Jong-un restated his unconditionally, that's in quote, |
| 0:54.1 | supports all Russian |
| 0:55.3 | actions during its war in Ukraine. |
| 0:57.6 | He welcomed Moscow's top diplomat to a newly built beach resort. |
| 1:02.5 | David, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:05.1 | Unconditional. |
| 1:06.0 | All reports suggest that the Russians have been using the North Korean arsenal, especially |
| 1:14.6 | with artillery shells, perhaps other contributions. |
| 1:18.4 | There was also talk that Russia is going to be buying products from North Korea. |
| 1:23.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:24.7 | I think I heard agriculture. |
| 1:27.1 | To your understanding, is there any more, |
| 1:29.8 | anywhere about North Korea sending more troops into Ukraine because the first 12 or 14,000 |
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