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Ukraine War: North Korea Confirms Sending Troops To Russia

The statement from North Korea has come just days after Russia admitted the participation of Pyongyang라이브 바카라 soldiers for Russia to fight against Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin (R), Kim Jong Un (L)
Vladimir Putin (R), Kim Jong Un (L) | Photo: AP
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North Korea confirmed for the first time on Monday that it had deployed troops for Russia to fight against Ukraine under the order of North Korea라이브 바카라 leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea has mentioned the contribution of Pyongyang soldiers who played a huge role in reclaiming the Russian territory, Kursk, which was held by Ukraine라이브 바카라 military. 

On Monday, the official news agency of North Korea, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) provided a statement which says that the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers’ Party said that Kim Jong Un had sent troops to Russia as part of a mutual defence treaty between the two countries’ capital Moscow and Pyongyang.

The statement from North Korea has come just days after Russia admitted the participation of Pyongyang라이브 바카라 soldiers for Russia to fight against Ukraine.

On Monday, KCNA reported that the ruling party in North Korea has quoted the end of the battle in Russia라이브 바카라 Kursk as the ‘highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship’ between Russia and North Korea.  

It has also mentioned that North Korea ‘regards it as an honour to have an alliance with such a powerful state as the Russian Federation’.

KCNA stated that Kim Jong Un said that soldiers were deployed to “annihilate and wipe out the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and liberate the Kursk area in cooperation with the Russian armed forces”. 

The statement says Kim has referred the militants as ‘heroes’. Kim has said, “Those who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honour of the motherland”.

Kim has also mentioned that a monument will be made in the country라이브 바카라 capital to honour the Pyongyang라이브 바카라 soldiers who had fought in the war.

“Flowers praying for immortality will be placed before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers, effectively acknowledging troops killed in combat,” Yonhap reported.

The statement from both North Korea and Russia came after months of US, UK and Ukraine라이브 바카라 speculation about North Korean troop deployment in Russia. Both countries had remained silent for a long time before confirming it.

Ukrainian officials said earlier this year that around 14,000 soldiers were deployed in Russia from North Korea to fight against Ukraine, including 3000 reinforcements who were sent to replace the killed, injured or prisoned soldiers.

Few days back, Russia announced that Kursk, the border region of Russia, is now out of Ukraine라이브 바카라 control. Though Ukraine denied it by saying that the Ukrainian troops are still deployed there in Kursk.

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