North Korean leader Kim Jong is an “unconditional support” in Moscow in his conflict with Ukraine, and predicts the success of the Russian offensive for more than three years, state media reported this Thursday, June 5.
Kim Jong one received on Wednesday the secretary of the Russian Security Council in Pyongyang on Wednesday in Pyongyang, who was a nearby advisor to the Kremlin, who carried out his second visit to the capital of North Korea in less than three months.
He assured that his government would contribute “his unconditional support to the position of Russia and its foreign policy on all crucial international issues, including the Ukrainian archive,” according to the report published by the North North Korean Korea agency.
“Strengthen” the Moscow-Pyongyang relationship
North Korea’s number expressed “his conviction that Russia was going, as always, winning victory in his sacred cause of investigation for justice,” he added. The two parties have agreed to “continue to gradually strengthen” their relationships, according to KCNA.
The Visit to North Korea of Sergei Choigou, former Russian Defense Minister, illustrates the accelerated approach between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Moscow and Pyongyang have strengthened their military cooperation in recent years, North Korea providing weapons and troops to support the Russian war against Ukraine. The two countries signed a mutual defense agreement on the occasion of a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin in North Korea last year.
North Korean soldiers on the Russian Front
The Russian Security Council, an important advisory body that meets regularly around President Vladimir Putin, had said that Sergei Choigou’s visit would focus on “the implementation of certain clauses” of the treaty of the Association between Russia and North Korea, as well as a tribute to the “Koreans who participated in the launch of the Koursk region.”
A contingent of North Korean soldiers participated, together with the Russian army, in the fight against Ukrainian forces in the Russian region of Koursk, partly occupied by kyiv’s troops since the summer of 2024 and whose Russia announced the launch at the end of April.
Some 600 North Korean soldiers died and thousands of other injured in these fights, said the deputy of South Korea, Lee Seong-Kweun, citing the country’s intelligence service. In April, Pyongyang first confirmed that he had deployed troops on the Ukrainian front along with the Russian army.
South Korea has accused north, endowed with nuclear weapons, to send important deliveries of arms, including missiles, to Russia to support their war effort.
“Illegal” relationships between Russia and North Korea, according to an NGO
An International UN sanctions surveillance organization against Pyongyang condemned “illegal” relations last week between Russia and North Korea.
According to the group, Russian cargo ships have delivered “nine million artillery cartridges and ammunition for multiple launches” from North Korea to Russia last year.
In return, “it is estimated that Russia has provided North Korea for air defense and anti -aircraft missiles,” he said.
Macron pointed out
The meeting between Kim Jong Una and Sergei Choigou took place on the day of the nomination in South Korea of the new president Lee Jae-Myung, who dedicated himself, in a speech, to reach North Korea, with which his country is still officially at war. The KCNA agency reported the nomination of the new leader of the neighboring country in two lines.
This Thursday, he also published a clear article that criticizes French president Emmanuel Macron for “reckless” statements about Pyongyang’s ties with Moscow.
“If China does not want NATO to get involved in Southeast Asia or Asia, it should prevent North Korea from getting involved in the European soil,” said Emmanuel Macron on Friday, May 30 at the Shangri-La Dialogue Conference in Singapore, referring to North Korean soldiers sent to fight with Russia.
In an article published by Kcna, the North Korean analyst in International Security Choe Ju Hyun described these words “shocking ineptitudes.” “Macron makes a mistake if he thinks of hiding the aggressive and malicious intention of NATO of putting his dirty military shoes in the Asia region and the Pacific attacking the cooperation relations between the RPDC (Democratic Popular Republic of Korea, the editor’s note) and Russia,” he wrote.
Distance between the two Koreas
While Russia and North Korea are adjusting their ties, “the prospects of restoring interaged relationships are increasingly moving away,” Lim Eul-Chul told AFP Eul-Chul at the Institute of Studies of the Far East of the University of Kyungnam.
Sergei Choïgu’s new visit also occurs a few days after Ukraine launched an important drone attack against Russia, which “underlines the urgency of high -level coordination in security problems.”
“From Pyongyang’s point of view, active participation in the fight against threats raised by drones could serve as a springboard to strengthen their abilities in the field of modern war, which suggests that North Korea could play a more assertive role in military cooperation with Russia,” said Lim Eul-Chul.
Source: BFM TV
