On February 3, the Belarusian state information company BelTA reported that Belarus, the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea (North Korea or DPRK), Iran, Myanmar, and Russia coauthored a joint assertion on launching an “inclusive consultative course of” to develop “a Eurasian Constitution of Range and Multipolarity within the XXI Century.” In accordance with the report, a Eurasian Constitution has been in dialogue since fall 2023, led by Belarus and Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have referenced this plan in June 2024, when he stated Russia and North Korea will “construct an equal and inseparable safety construction in Eurasia.”[1]
As of February 4, North Korean media haven’t reported on this assertion.
North Korea’s participation on this multilateral effort —regardless of its personal media silence— displays each its deepening relationship with Russia and its rising position as an lively participant in a Russia-led sphere. This aligns Pyongyang’s official statements in recent times to construct a brand new international order with Russia, in addition to its self-perception as a extra vital international participant. Given this trajectory, messaging on the upcoming Ninth Social gathering Congress, the place the nation will lay out its overseas coverage technique for the subsequent 5 years, will probably reinforce fairly than reverse this course.
Context
North Korea’s participation within the Eurasian Constitution initiative follows greater than two years of constant signaling from Pyongyang that it might associate with Russia to construct another international order. The transfer aligns with Pyongyang’s burgeoning ties to Russia—notably following Kim Jong Un’s heat reception of Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang in July 2023, and the Kim-Putin summit on the Vostochny Cosmodrome two months later—and its gravitation to Belarus and Russia-led multilateral boards since 2024.
- In October 2023, shortly after the Kim-Putin summit, a North Korean vice overseas minister known as improved North Korea-Russia relations “the simply manner for constructing an impartial and peaceable new world and realizing real worldwide justice.” Pyongyang has since persistently stated, explicitly or implicitly, that it might work with Russia to construct a brand new international order. In October 2025, the North Korean and Russian ruling events issued an unprecedented joint assertion signaling Pyongyang’s nearer alignment with Moscow on worldwide points, together with Eurasian safety.
- The 2024 DPRK-Russia Treaty on Complete Strategic Partnership codifies this consensus: “The 2 sides shall aspire to international strategic stability and institution of a brand new truthful and equal worldwide order, preserve shut mutual communication and strengthen strategic and tactical cooperation.”
- North Korea has concurrently strengthened ties with Belarus, Moscow’s key ally, since 2024, highlighted by International Minister Choe Son Hui’s October 2025 go to to Minsk. North Korea additionally participated in BRICS occasions for the primary time in 2024, and Choe attended the Third Minsk Worldwide Convention on Eurasian Safety in 2025, the place the Eurasian Constitution was reportedly mentioned.
Significance
Pyongyang’s participation within the Eurasian Constitution seems tied to its self-perception as a world actor—each reflecting that view and serving as a method to additional improve its worldwide standing. North Korea has more and more considered itself as taking part in a larger international position since deploying troops to help Russia in its conflict in opposition to Ukraine. For instance, at a 2025 year-end Social gathering plenary assembly, Kim Jong Un stated these troopers “demonstrated to the world the status of our military and state because the ever-victorious military and real protector of the worldwide justice.”
In opposition to this backdrop, the Eurasian Constitution might mark the start of a extra internationally assertive North Korea. Kim’s previous assessments of the worldwide order counsel this trajectory. In 2021, he famous that “the construction of the worldwide relations has been decreased to the construction of ‘neo-Chilly Struggle.’” In 2022, he noticed a “change from a unipolar world advocated by the US right into a multipolar world.” North Korea’s overseas coverage in recent times—evidenced by its efforts to construct a “multipolar world” with Russia—displays these views.
Conclusion
The Eurasian Constitution’s influence on international politics stays unclear, as does North Korea’s tangible profit past what it might view as enhanced status and the sense of safety of being a part of Russia’s orbit. But North Korea’s understanding of worldwide safety dynamics might be vital to observe, as it’s going to form the nation’s strategic decisions going ahead. The upcoming Ninth Social gathering Congress ought to present perception into Kim Jong Un’s worldview. Given present traits, the Social gathering Congress will probably be used to justify deepening fairly than reversing Pyongyang’s present overseas coverage course.
