North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged during a meeting with russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov that his country would "invariably support" russia's war against Ukraine.
The Associated Press agency portal reported this with reference to the Korean Central News Agency, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
A russian military delegation led by Belousov arrived in North Korea on November 29 to discuss further cooperation between the two countries.
"The official Korean Central News Agency said that Kim and Belousov reached “a satisfactory consensus” on boosting strategic partnership and defending each country’s sovereignty, security interests and international justice in the face of the rapidly-changing international security environments in a Friday meeting," AP reports.
The North Korean leader said that his country "will invariably support the policy of the Russian Federation to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity from the imperialists’ moves for hegemony." According to foreign media, North Korea supported russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling it a defensive response to what both moscow and Pyongyang call NATO's "reckless" eastward advance and U.S.-led steps aimed at destroying russia's position as a powerful state.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, according to Forbes, on November 7, marines from the aggressor country of russia, probably with the support of the North Korean military, tried to storm the positions of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk Oblast (russia).
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