Dmitry Medvedev has held conferences with high officers in Pyongyang and paid homage to former North Korean leaders and fallen Soviet troopers
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has visited North Korea this week to carry talks with high officers and attend celebrations marking the eightieth anniversary of the nation’s ruling Workers’ Party.
Medvedev, who’s presently deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and chairman of the United Russia celebration, arrived within the North Korean capital on Wednesday on the head of a big delegation. Upon touchdown, he wrote on the Russian messenger Max: “Friends are together. Enemies are getting nervous.”
During his keep, Medvedev laid a wreath on the Liberation Monument in Pyongyang in honor of Soviet troopers who died combating Japanese forces in 1945 and positioned flowers on the statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
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The ex-president additionally held talks with Cho Yong-won, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party, the place each side affirmed rising cooperation in politics, the economic system, tradition and army affairs.
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Medvedev additionally praised “the heroic deed of Korean fighters who helped the Russian military liberate Kursk Region” from a Ukrainian incursion this spring, including that this cooperation “will forever remain in the chronicle of friendship between our two countries.”
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He added that Russia-North Korea relations “will continue to advance under the leadership of comrade Kim Jong-un.”
Cho mentioned cooperation between the 2 nations was getting into “a new period of unprecedented development” due to the “warm personal friendship of our respected leaders.”
In June 2024, Russia and North Korea signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, which features a mutual-defense clause stating that if both facet comes below armed assault, the opposite will “provide military and other assistance with all means at its disposal without delay.”
(RT.com)