Russian President, Vladimir Putin did not rule out the supply of weapons to North Korea this Thursday in response to the supply of modern weapons to Ukraine by NATO countries.

“We reserve the right to supply weapons to other regions of the world. And I do not exclude this, given our agreement with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”Putin stated this during a press conference following his visit to Vietnam, broadcast on Russian public television.

Putin assured that “Western “They supply weapons to Ukraine and from now on they say that they no longer control anything, and it does not matter how they are used.”and I add:

Well, you can also say that we delivered something to someone and then are not responsible for anything.

For agreement on mutual assistance in case of aggression signed this Wednesday with Pyongyang, Putin rejected it, saying “there is nothing new in this.”

“We signed this agreement because the old one ceased to exist. And in the previous agreement of 1961 everything was the same, there is nothing new,” he said.

Although he admitted that “in the current climate this seems somewhat extraordinary”, he added that “we have changed almost nothing” and that The situation in the world requires legal strengthening of relations with Russia’s partners, especially in Asia.

South Korea has ‘no reason to worry’, since our military assistance under the agreement we signed occurs only in the event of aggression against one of the signatories of the document. As far as I know, the Republic of Korea is not planning aggression against North Korea,” he said.

Putin stressed that in fact the agreement he signed with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will act as a “deterrent to prevent the (Korean) crisis” from escalating into armed conflict.