North Korean leader Kim Jong One told Russia’s first diplomat that his country was ready to “unwittingly support” all measures taken by Moscow to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, state media reported on Sunday, while the two countries organized high-level strategic talks.
The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, is visiting three days in North Korea, which provided troops and weapons for the Russian war with Ukraine and has promised more military support while Moscow tries to make progress in the conflict.
Kim met Lavrov in the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, where the ministers of the two foreign countries organized their second strategic dialogue, promising additional cooperation under a partnership treaty signed last year which includes a mutual defense pact.
Kim told Lavrov that the measures taken by the Allies in response to the radical development of world geopolitics will greatly contribute to ensuring peace and security in the world, the KCNA’s news agency KCNA reported.
“Kim Jong An A reaffirmed the RPDC (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is ready to support and unconditionally encourage all the measures taken by the Russian management with regard to the fight against the deep cause of the Ukrainian crisis,” KCNA said.
Lavrov previously had talks with his North Korean counterpart Choe his Hui in Wonsan, and they published a joint declaration promising support to safeguard the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries with each other, said KCNA.
On Saturday, the Russian media reported that Lavrov had described the ties of the two countries as “an invincible combat brotherhood” during his meeting with Kim and thanked her for the troops deployed in Russia.
Relations between Russia and North Korea have detonated considerably during the last two years of the war in Ukraine, which began in February 2022, Pyongyang deployment of more than 10,000 soldiers and weapons in Russia to support the Moscow military campaign.
Kim’s government has committed to sending around 6,000 military engineers and manufacturers to help reconstruction in the Russian Kursk region.
