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Soviet troops entered the country from the east weeks after Nazi Germany invaded from the west, and shortly after the two powers signed a secret deal to divide the territory, alongside a public nonaggression treaty.

The last lines echoed a radio address given by his grandfather and namesake, Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin’s longtime foreign minister, on June 22, 1941, to announce that Nazi Germany had invaded, breaking a nonaggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

South and North Korea have signed military and other agreements in recent months that Mr. Kim said were tantamount to a nonaggression treaty.

Mr. Moon and Mr. Kim on Wednesday signed a series of agreements that Choi Jong-kun, Mr. Moon’s secretary for arms control, called a “de facto nonaggression treaty.”

"If we maintain frequent meetings and build trust with the United States and receive promises for an end to the war and a nonaggression treaty, then why would we need to live in difficulty by keeping our nuclear weapons?" the North Korean leader asked, according to the South Korean account.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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