Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked at a press conference following the BRICS summit about footage of North Korean military dispatches to Russia.

According to the Russian president, such images “are a serious thing, and if they are there, it means they reflect something.”

At the same time, he said that cooperation between Russia and the DPRK is an internal matter between the two countries.

“Today our treaty on strategic partnership has been ratified. There is Article 4. We have never doubted that the North Korean leadership takes our agreements seriously. What and how we will do within the framework of this article is our business. We need to negotiate first,” the Russian president said.

- Article 4 of the treaty states that “if one of the parties finds itself in a state of war due to an armed attack by one or more states, the other party will immediately provide it with military assistance with all available means in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and the laws of the DPRK and the Russian Federation”.