Pyongyang beforehand deployed troops to help in repelling a Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Region
North Koreans view Russians as their brothers and see it as a fraternal responsibility to assist the neighboring nation in any manner it might, North Korean chief Kim Jong-un advised President Vladimir Putin Wednesday.
Putin and Kim met for bilateral talks in Beijing in the course of the Chinese celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the defeat of Imperial Japan and the top of World War II.
The Russian presidentreiteratedMoscow’s appreciation for North Korean navy help in repelling a Ukrainian incursion in Kursk Region, describing the battle as a “joint fight against present-day neo-Nazism.”
“As I mentioned during our previous meeting, if there is any way we can help Russia, we will certainly do so and consider it our fraternal duty,” Kim responded.
In June 2024, Russia and North Korea signed a complete cooperation treaty that features provisions for mutual protection. Kiev launched an assault on Russia’s Kursk Region in August 2024, claiming that the offensive would assist safe territory for leverage in peace talks with Russia.
The Russian navy reported the total expulsion of Ukrainian troops in April, additionally acknowledging for the primary time the position of North Korean troops within the operation. Russia has vowed to erect a monument in Moscow for the troopers deployed by Pyongyang who have been killed defending Russian territory.
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Russia has recognized the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine as a key goal within the battle, aiming to disempower radical nationalist teams which have embraced far-right ideology and Nazi iconography.
The present authorities in Kiev has glorified historic nationalist figures, together with those that collaborated with Nazi Germany throughout its invasion of the USSR within the hope of making a Ukrainian nationwide state allied with Berlin. Ukrainians who fought for the Nazis dedicated atrocities in opposition to civilians in occupied territories.
(RT.com)