Last month, UNC🇺🇳 hosted Russian🇷🇺 Ambassador to the ROK Andrey Kulik in the #JSA🇺🇳🇰🇵. As a P-5 member of the UN Security Council, Russia has an important responsibility in managing the security situation in Korea, and this visit offered him insight into our enduring mission. pic.twitter.com/hflRZZn6hJ
— United Nations Command 유엔군사령부/유엔사 (@UN_Command) June 4, 2021
Quite a difference from 1950…they supplied Kim Fatty the first with tanks, artillery & jets, quite possible a couple of those artillery pieces, obsolete, are still usable today.
ChickenHead
2 years ago
And here I thought a Russian diplomat in an ill-fitting suit and a hack haircut was just a stereotype.
Is there another picture so we can check for white socks?
And what’s up with the woman next to him (wife?).
Her jacket is all sci-fi on the outside and Where’s Waldo on the inside.
Oh, those Russians.
liz
2 years ago
When Obama was president, we hosted PRC ambassadors at F22 bases.
Thought that was weird at the time.
setnaffa
2 years ago
In the 80s there were Russian observers in the Reforger exercises…
Actually with all the snide remarks about the Russians here, South Korea and Russia has a fantastic relationship right now. According to the poll, 90% of Russians have a positive view of South Korea – putting them at the top of the list of countries which has a positive view of South Korea.
Russia badly wants South Korean investments in their Far East territory for two things. They want South Korea to help develop that under developed region, and second, to check the encroaching Chinese into the Russian region. One Russian official even suggested Russia offer South Korea to lease the Russian Far East lands, and populate them with South Koreans. Now, South Korea and Russia are negotiating to develop the Kuril Islands (yah, the same islands that Japan is trying so hard to get back from Russia).
And where do you think South Koreans got their missile technology? Certainly not from the United States which tried hard to suppress South Korea’s military technology development so that they can keep Korea militarily depended on the US. Also South Korea’s K9 Thunder Self Props and K2 Panther tanks were developed by ripping apart the Russian T-80 tanks that South Korea got from the Soviet Union, in return for the billions of dollars that the Soviets borrowed from Korea in 1990. The Russians couldn’t pay back their debt, so they paid back with military arms. At that time Koreans didn’t think Russian hardware weren’t worth the money, but it turns out they did far more than anything when it comes to kick starting South Korea’s ambitious military defence industry.
Russia is becoming a good economic and military partner for South Korea.
Quite a difference from 1950…they supplied Kim Fatty the first with tanks, artillery & jets, quite possible a couple of those artillery pieces, obsolete, are still usable today.
And here I thought a Russian diplomat in an ill-fitting suit and a hack haircut was just a stereotype.
Is there another picture so we can check for white socks?
And what’s up with the woman next to him (wife?).
Her jacket is all sci-fi on the outside and Where’s Waldo on the inside.
Oh, those Russians.
When Obama was president, we hosted PRC ambassadors at F22 bases.
Thought that was weird at the time.
In the 80s there were Russian observers in the Reforger exercises…
It’s part of how we bankrupted the Soviets…
Actually with all the snide remarks about the Russians here, South Korea and Russia has a fantastic relationship right now. According to the poll, 90% of Russians have a positive view of South Korea – putting them at the top of the list of countries which has a positive view of South Korea.
Russia badly wants South Korean investments in their Far East territory for two things. They want South Korea to help develop that under developed region, and second, to check the encroaching Chinese into the Russian region. One Russian official even suggested Russia offer South Korea to lease the Russian Far East lands, and populate them with South Koreans. Now, South Korea and Russia are negotiating to develop the Kuril Islands (yah, the same islands that Japan is trying so hard to get back from Russia).
And where do you think South Koreans got their missile technology? Certainly not from the United States which tried hard to suppress South Korea’s military technology development so that they can keep Korea militarily depended on the US. Also South Korea’s K9 Thunder Self Props and K2 Panther tanks were developed by ripping apart the Russian T-80 tanks that South Korea got from the Soviet Union, in return for the billions of dollars that the Soviets borrowed from Korea in 1990. The Russians couldn’t pay back their debt, so they paid back with military arms. At that time Koreans didn’t think Russian hardware weren’t worth the money, but it turns out they did far more than anything when it comes to kick starting South Korea’s ambitious military defence industry.
Russia is becoming a good economic and military partner for South Korea.
And a possible partner for the Norks… https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/06/04/North-Korea-Russian-Sputnik-vaccines-interest/9461622810876/