Putin heads to Pyongyang
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Russia’s Vladimir Putin is visiting North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un for the first time in 24 years, as the pair look to deepen their relationship in the face of international isolation. And: Wildfires forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the Greek island of Rhodes last year – now there’s a focus on how to make tourism more sustainable.
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| 0:24.0 | Russia and North Korea are getting economically closer. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, and thanks for tuning into the marketplace morning report. |
| 0:32.0 | We are live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning. Vladimir Putin is set to visit North Korea later as he and |
| 0:39.4 | Kim Jong-un strengthened their partnership at a time when Russia is facing increasing isolation internationally. |
| 0:46.0 | The growing alliance could have big impacts on trade and security, especially in Asia and Ukraine. |
| 0:52.0 | The BBC's Chaim at Kaleel is on this one. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello, welcome to Seoul. |
| 0:56.5 | Put this into context for us because there's not a lot of global leaders |
| 0:59.5 | who would be visiting North Korea or Kim Jong-on for that matter is there? |
| 1:03.4 | No and I think it's significant for so many reasons I think it's significant because |
| 1:07.4 | it's the first trip by Vladimir Putin to Pyang in more than two decades I was |
| 1:12.0 | just watching Korean TV news and they were running |
| 1:15.7 | archive footage of a much younger Vladimir Putin in the year 2000 received by Kim Jong-un's father, Kim Jong-il. A lot has changed in those more than 20 years. |
| 1:25.8 | I think it's seen by some observers as a thank you from Putin. In a way, it's a thank you for |
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