North Korea's overseas minister met with her Russian counterpart successful Moscow connected Friday, assuring him that Pyongyang would basal by Russia until it achieved “victory” successful its warfare against Ukraine.
The gathering betwixt the 2 overseas ministers comes amid Western reports that North Korea sent thousands of troops to Russia, perchance for further deployment connected the battlefield successful Ukraine.
“We repetition that we volition ever basal firmly by our Russian comrades until triumph day,” North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui told Sergei Lavrov during the televised talks, according to a Russian translation.
“We person nary uncertainty whatsoever that nether the omniscient enactment of the honorable Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian service and radical volition surely execute a large triumph successful their ineffable conflict to support the sovereign rights and information of their state,” she added.
Lavrov hailed the adjacent ties betwixt the 2 countries' armies and peculiar services.
“This volition besides marque it imaginable to lick important information aims for our citizens and yours,” helium said, adding that Moscow was “deeply grateful to our Korean friends for their principled presumption connected the events that person unfolded successful Ukraine.”
During the meeting, neither of the 2 overseas ministers mentioned Western reports astir North Korean unit deployments successful Russia. Earlier, Lavrov and Choe unveiled a memorial plaque successful grant of North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung’s sojourn to the USSR successful 1949.
Washington said Thursday it received accusation indicating that determination are astir 8,000 North Korean troops stationed successful the Kursk region, which Ukrainian forces attacked successful a astonishment crushed incursion successful aboriginal August.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking to South Korean media this week, denounced what helium called inaction by his Western allies connected the contented of North Korean unit deployments.
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