HANOI. June 20 (Interfax) - The Russian-North Korean agreement on military-technical and defense cooperation was signed because the previous one ceased to exist, it is nothing new, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"I want to point out that this agreement is not something new. We are concluding this agreement in relation to the old one having ceased to exist. And in our previous agreement, of 1962, everything was the same, there is nothing new here," Putin told journalists in Hanoi on Thursday.
"Of course, in modern conditions it looks especially acute, but we barely changed anything," Putin said.
North Korea has similar agreements with other countries too, he said.