Putin To Arrive In North Korea As Kim Hails "Invincible Comrades-in-Arms"

As G7 leaders who are to meet in Italy this week prepare expanded sanctions on Russia, President Vladmir Putin is soon expected in North Korea. Kim Jong Un on Wednesday hailed his country's ties with Moscow, calling the two powers which actually share a tiny far eastern border "invincible comrades-in-arms".

While a date has yet to be given, the Kremlin has indicated that Putin will travel to Pyongyang at some point this summer, and that the trip is currently "being prepared".

South Korea's Yonhap news agency however said Putin could show up in the North Korean capital "as early as next week" as part of an expected Asian tour that will include Vietnam.

Kim said further that "meaningful" ties with Russia will "further consolidate the eternal milestone" in a new era of relations, according to state KCNA.

Putin will in essence be returning the favor of a visit, after Kim toured Russia's far east last year, and reportedly inspected several weapons and space-related sites.

During that prior trip, Kim had said closer relations with Moscow are his "number one priority" - as both countries find themselves under heavy US-led sanctions.

The Ukraine war, and accompanying Western punitive sanctions, have resulted in Russia forging closer defense and trade ties with US rival, enemies, and 'pariahs' like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and China. The US has even accused North Korea is supplying immense amounts of artillery shells and military supplies for Moscow's war efforts in Ukraine.

Despite a precise timeframe not being announced, Putin's arrival in North Korea could be imminent, with one regional monitor saying there are clear signs that it's close:

North Korea has completely cleared planes from the tarmac in front of Pyongyang International Airport in recent days, a rare activity associated with foreign leader visits that likely signals preparations to host Russian leader Vladimir Putin as early as this week.

NK Pro analysis of Planet Labs imagery shows Air Koryo planes were removed from a parking apron near the airport’s terminal building between June 6 and 10. They remained parked in other parts of the airport on June 11.

Reuters previously reported this week that Putin is expected in Vietnam from June 19 to 20. There's speculation over the likelihood that the North Korea trip will take place before that.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-expected-soon-north-korea-kim-hails-invincible-comrades-arms

The Warsaw-Based “Ukraine Communications Group” Is The New “Disinformation Governance Board”

This multilateral platform, which brings together Western propagandists on a pro-Ukrainian pretext, can be wielded by the US Government to meddle in the coming presidential election much more effectively than ever before.

The US and Poland reached two agreements earlier this week to establish the Warsaw-based “Ukraine Communications Group” (UCG). Its explicitly stated goal is “to coordinate messaging, promote accurate reporting of Russia’s full-scale invasion, amplify Ukrainian voices, and expose Kremlin information manipulation.” Despite being directed against Russia, it’ll likely also be aimed against the West’s conservative-nationalist opposition and could easily grow to involve more subjects than just Ukraine.

The Department of Homeland Security’s infamous “Disinformation Governance Board”, which was briefly established for several months in 2022 with essentially the same mission, was forced to shut down under public pressure due to legitimate concerns that its mandate risked violating Americans’ civil liberties. Its masterminds learned their lesson not to set up another similar institution at home, however, and that’s why they’re finally replicating its functions through the UCG and basing it in Warsaw instead of DC.

==Its foreign location and partial foreign composition allow the US Government (USG) to “plausibly deny” accusations that it poses a similar threat to Americans’ civil liberties as its predecessor did, plus any such future violations could be blamed on their foreign partners to deflect blame from the USG. After all, the last of its explicitly stated goals can effortlessly be exploited to target all

Westerners on the pretext that they’re either exposed to “Kremlin information manipulation” or peddling it, whether knowingly or not.==

From there, it’s just a proverbial hop, skip, and a jump away from weaponizing the UCG against members of the West’s conservative-nationalist opposition, whether to artificially manufacture the “legal” basis for spying on them or to smear these figures in the court of public opinion. This unstated mission takes on a greater urgency than ever for the West’s ruling liberal-globalist elite after some of their rivals’ gains during the latest European Parliamentary elections and ahead of the next US presidential one.

France’s National Rally, Germany’s AfD, and even Poland’s own “Law & Justice” (PiS) and Confederation parties could be targeted, among others. Regarding those last two, it’s suspected that returning Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s decision to hypocritically revive his predecessor’s “Russian influence commission” that he himself criticized last summer is aimed at smearing PiS before next May’s presidential election. His rivals also only narrowly lost the latest European Parliamentary elections by less than 1%.

As for Confederation, it captured more of the under-30 vote than the country’s two main parties to finish in third place despite being smeared by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last month as “friends of Putin” who “want to destroy Europe”. Taken together, PiS and Confederation’s showing proved that the Polish Right is still strong despite Tusk’s liberal-globalists winning the latest European Parliamentary elections, which is precisely why they’ll likely be targeted by the UCG.

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski’s suggestion last month that anyone who supports traditional values, is against illegal immigration, and questions any aspect of the Ukrainian Conflict might be under Russian influence adds credence to this concern and could become the UCG’s informal standard going forward. As the reader likely intuited, this would guarantee that Trump’s Make America Great Again/America First movement is targeted too, thus resulting in civil liberty violations and election meddling.

https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-warsaw-based-ukraine-communications

Blinken Says If Gaza Truce Deal Fails Only Hamas Is To Blame: "It's On Them"

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken while in the Middle East has said that if the ceasefire deal which is currently being pushed hard by the White House doesn't go through then there will only be Hamas to blame.

He said this week to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US has "reaffirmed his commitment" to a Gaza ceasefire plan, and that lack of progress will be the fault of Hamas. As we've explained previously, Biden is pushing a plan that neither side has really embraced from the start as this is really much about Biden admin PR and damage control going into the November election. Hamas leaders have never backed off their insistence of a full Israeli military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as a key condition for a lasting truce.

And now Blinken has quickly suggested the deal could be off (but it was never really "on" or even close to begin with…) . "Hamas has proposed numerous changes to the proposal that was on the table… Some of the changes are workable, some are not," he said in a press conference with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-says-if-gaza-truce-deal-fails-only-hamas-blame-its-them

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