North Korean leader
Jong-un said his country would continue to support Russia’s policies and he discussed the international political situation with Russia’s defence minister, state media KCNA reported on Monday.
A
delegation including Defence Minister Andrei Belousov attended a completion ceremony for a memorial honouring North Korean soldiers killed while fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, where
forces staged an incursion in 2024, KCNA said.
Russia launched a
of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022, and its troops are still fighting there, having occupied around a fifth of the country.
“The North Korean government would continue to fully support Russia’s policies of defending its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests,” Kim said, according to KCNA.
Russian and North Korean leaders take part in an opening ceremony of a museum and memorial complex in Pyongyang on Sunday. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry/EPA
sent an estimated 14,000 troops to fight with Russian forces in Kursk after the two countries agreed a mutual defence pact.
, Ukrainian and Western officials said more than 6,000 North Korean soldiers were killed in the fighting.