# The Russia–DPRK comprehensive strategic partnership enters into force

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 4 December 2024 the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership entered into force with exchange of ratification instruments. The Federation Council had ratified on 6 November 2024; Kim’s ratification decree is dated 11 November 2024.

## Context

He ratified as head of state. Russian chambers ratified. KCNA reported the exchange in Moscow.

Signature June; Federation Council 6 November; Kim decree 11 November; entry 4 December 2024. Keep dates. Keep The Russia–DPRK comprehensive strategic partnership enters into force on 2024-12-04 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

The path is the Ukraine war: a completed legal force for Article 4, neighbouring combat-unit reports rather than renaming them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The treaty entered into force on 4 December 2024 after Russian and DPRK ratification instruments.

Not established: A unique first-day casualty coefficient from the exchange of notes.

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.

Russian chambers ratified. The exchange completed legal force.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Russia–DPRK comprehensive strategic partnership enters into force, not a later speech about The Russia–DPRK comprehensive strategic partnership enters into force.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Russia–DPRK comprehensive strategic partnership enters into force on 2024-12-04 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 The Russia–DPRK comprehensive strategic partnership enters into force into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ratified. Russian chambers ratified. The exchange completed legal force. 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/asia-pacific/north-korea-russia-treaty-comes-into-force-kcna-says-2024-12-04/
- http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202412050001

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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