Netizens have reacted to reports coming in that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is set to visit North Korea’s Pyongyang.

“At the invitation of the Chairman of State Affairs of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin will pay a friendly state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 18-19,” the Kremlin said on Monday, using North Korea’s official name.

Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said the two countries could sign a partnership agreement during the visit that would include security issues.

He said the deal would not be directed against any other country but would “outline prospects for further cooperation, and will be signed taking into account what has happened between our countries in recent years – in the field of international politics, in the field of economics … including, of course, taking into account security issues”.

Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak will join Putin on the trip, reports Al Jazeera.

Reacting to the news some netizens saw it as a preamble to a World war.

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