Putin, North Korea and a ballistic bromance
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As part of a two day trip, Putin visited Pyongyang, greeted by a red carpet, roses and ceremonial gunfire before signing what Kim Jong Un has called an alliance.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky's Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett and Beijing correspondent Nicole Johnston about what this unusual relationship between the leaders means for their respective countries, and the rest of the world.
Producer: Sydney Pead
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 1:01.2 | Let me tell you about a bit of video that's just come across my desk. It is of two men, |
| 1:06.8 | conservatively dressed, smartly dressed, perhaps a paid of businessman getting ready to pitch their |
| 1:12.7 | latest multi-million pound idea. They're standing in the countryside somewhere next to a big, black, |
| 1:18.2 | shiny executive limousine. I can't quite work out what type it is, however. They get in looking |
| 1:24.0 | like the best friends in the world. And it's almost a sort of Dragon's Den versus |
| 1:28.7 | carpool karaoke moment as these two take a leisurely drive through the countryside to |
| 1:34.1 | destination unknown. No, we're not looking at pictures of James Corden and Peter Jones, instead |
| 1:39.0 | of North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin. The two have been meeting for the first time, |
| 1:45.6 | frankly, almost two and a half decades on North Korean soil. Why? I'm Neil Patterson, |
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