North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un on Monday offered his country’s “full support and solidarity” to Moscow in a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kim says he wants to “hold hands” with Putin and defended Moscow’s decision to invade Ukraine, according to North Korea’s state media on Monday. In a message to Putin for Russia’s National Day, Kim offered “full support and solidarity” to the Russian leader. “Justice is sure to win and the Russian people will continue to add glory to the history of victory,” Kim said, according to KCNA. He also called for “closer strategic cooperation” between North Korea and Russia, “holding hands firmly with the Russian president, in conformity with the common desire of the peoples of the two countries to fulfill the grand goal of building a powerful country.”
Kim sent the congratulatory message on the national day of Russia, one of a handful of nations that maintain friendly relations with Pyongyang.
His message, published by the official Korean Central News Agency, did not directly mention Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, but praised Putin’s “correct decision and guidance… to foil the hostile forces’ escalating threats.”
The North Korean people, it added, extend “full support and solidarity to the Russian people in their all-out struggle for implementing the sacred cause to preserve the sovereign rights, development, and interests of their country against the imperialists’ high-handed and arbitrary practices.”
This was the latest message of support from Pyongyang to Moscow since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. North Korea has described that conflict as a U.S. “proxy war” to destroy Russia, and condemned Western military aid to Kyiv.
In January, the United States accused North Korea of supplying rockets and missiles to the Russian mercenary group Wagner, an allegation that Pyongyang denied. And in March, Washington claimed to have proof that Moscow was looking to Pyongyang to supply weapons for its offensive in Ukraine, in return for food aid for impoverished North Korea.
As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has long held the line against increasing pressure on North Korea, which is under multiple UN and Western sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile programs. i24 News
Russia should present him with a mirror where he’ll for the first time see how stupid he looks in that hairstyle.
Regular guy. And he got to hold hands with get-me-money Trump. What a free system Donald put up.
Greatly I wonder why Russia did not just invade North Korea and do the world a favor. They went after their own brothers.