The Russian president said Friday that his country will continue to develop its nuclear arsenal, days after signing a new mutual defense pact with Kim Jong Un.

A key U.S. ally fired warning shots Friday — live ones to repel North Korean soldiers and a diplomatic volley to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin, as tensions rise after his new mutual defense pact with Kim Jong Un.

South Korea, which has so far only provided non-lethal aid to Ukraine, said it was considering arming Kyiv in response to a newly forged alliance between Moscow and Pyongyang reminiscent of the Cold War that has alarmed officials in the West.

Putin said that doing so would be a “very big mistake.”

“If this happens, then we will also make appropriate decisions that the current leadership of South Korea would hardly like,” he said during his state visit to Vietnam on Thursday, which immediately followed the lavish Pyongyang visit. “We reserve our right to supply weapons to other regions of the world,” he added.

The Russian president’s saber-rattling continued Friday, when he said that Russia will continue to develop its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent.

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Arm them with what?

They’re sending you the arms, remember?

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Russia reminds me of the black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He has all his limbs cut off by Arthur, to the point where he’s just a useless torso perched on the ground. But he’s still defiantly insulting Arthur and looking for a fight.

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Well, yeah, he only suffered a scratch.

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tis but a flesh wound

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Someone should make a meme with putins head on the torso :-)

“You’ll regret it!!”

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Probably icbm tech or something, it’s pretty much all they have left.

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Legitimate question, is Russia still able to get all the materials required to make nuclear ICBMs?

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Or is North Korea if they just get the technology and not the parts?

I mean the first ICBM test was launched in 1957. This isn’t exactly cutting-edge stuff and they still fuck it up at present.

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Yes. The have the material resources and china hasn’t said no the them yet, so they have the technical resources.

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Yeah they could well do a tech transfer of some older models

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Feel free to explain to me the logic of threatening to arm a country that you’re coming to asking for them to arm you.

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Bro NK is currently Arming Russia they don’t have shit.

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Putin gave NK one fancy luxury Russian car. Does that count?

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Omg! This will end the world XD

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This is about nukes. Reading comprehension not your thing?

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With what weapons asshole… Are you going to give North Korea back the weapons that you just desperately needed from them… Piss off you mental midget

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Nuclear weapons…

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They already have them and they already have ICBMs

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I mean have them and have working “them” are entirely different monsters.

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Kim be like “3 days to Seoul”

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