# Kim and Putin sign a comprehensive strategic partnership including Article 4 mutual assistance

Date: 2024

## The fact

In June 2024 [Kim Jong Un](/people/kim-jong-un) and [Vladimir Putin](/people/vladimir-putin) signed the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in Pyongyang. Calendar-day sources split 18 and 19 June; the Federation Council later recited 19 June. Article 4 is mutual assistance citing UN Charter 51.

## Context

He signed as President of the State Affairs Commission. Putin signed. Vladimir Putin is the counterpart. Entry into force is a neighbouring 4 December row.

Vostochny 2023; signature June 2024; entry into force 4 December 2024; combat units autumn 2024. Keep dates. Keep Kim and Putin sign a comprehensive strategic partnership including Article 4 mutual assistance on 2024-06-19 separate from neighbouring nuclear-test, camp, Vostochny, treaty, and troop-despatch instruments.

The President of the State Affairs Commission commands the armed forces and signs treaties.

## Evidence and sources

Official internet portal of legal information (Russian Federation) carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: A comprehensive strategic partnership was signed in Pyongyang in June 2024 with mutual-assistance language; sources split 18/19 June.

Not established: A unique Ukrainian casualty coefficient from the signing table, or that 18 June is the only possible calendar day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Putin signed. The KPA later executed neighbouring despatch. This page does not invent a headcount from the table.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Kim and Putin sign a comprehensive strategic partnership including Article 4 mutual assistance, not a later speech about Kim and Putin sign a comprehensive strategic partnership including Article 4 mutual assistance.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Kim and Putin sign a comprehensive strategic partnership including Article 4 mutual assistance on 2024-06-19 is not a licence to treat every later Official internet portal of legal information (Russian Federation) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Kim and Putin sign a comprehensive strategic partnership including Article 4 mutual assistance into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed. Putin signed. The KPA later executed neighbouring despatch. This page does not invent a headcount from the table. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kim Jong-un: https://factrail.ai/people/kim-jong-un

## Drivers

- Ukraine war (Crimea–Donbas–2022+): https://factrail.ai/drivers/ukraine-war

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-kim-sign-strategic-partnership-2024-06-19/
- http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202412050001

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kp-russia-treaty-2024