“Comrade Kim Jong A defined (the mission) as a sacred mission for additional consolidation as firm as a rock traditional friendship and solidarity between RPDC and Russia,” he added.
Later Monday, Russian president Vladimir Putin thanked Kim and the North Korean troops for their “solidarity” and their “heroism”.
“We appreciate this very much and are sincerely grateful, personally to the chairman of the State Affairs Committee, Comrade Kim Jong-un, as well as to all of the leaders and residents of North Korea,” said Putin.
The report comes just two days after Valery Gerasimov, chief of staff general of the Russian armed forces, recognized that the North Korean troops had fought in the war alongside Russia and praised their “heroism”.
Gerasimov also said that Russia had found full control of the country’s Western Kursk region. kyiv denied the complaint, saying that Moscow’s statements “do not correspond to reality”.
In our opinion, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence officials, North Korea sent around 10,000 to 12,000 soldiers in Russia last fall. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy previously estimated that around 4,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or injured, while US officials offered a lower estimate of around 1,200 victims.
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