The two nation’s have grown increasingly closer since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when Pyongyang began sending thousands of troops to fight alongside Russian soldiers on the frontlines. North Korea and “Russia relations have been further consolidated into the sincerest alliance of sharing blood, life and death in the same trench, and their absolute solidity and mightiness have been more vividly etched in the pages of the times and history,” Kim penned to Putin, according to North Korean state-run news site KCNA. Pyongyang has sent 12,000 soldiers to help the Kremlin repel a Ukrainian advance in the Kursk region, and pledged to send 30,000 more troops in July.
Author: David Spector
Published at: 2025-12-27 21:27:46
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