North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a congratulatory message to President Vladimir Putin on Russia’s Victory Day holiday, expressing his country’s “firm solidarity” with Moscow, the North Korean news agency KCNA reports.
In his letter sent on 9 May, Kim “extended firm solidarity to the cause of the Russian people to root out the political and military threat and blackmail by the hostile forces”.
The North Korean leader also “expressed belief that the strategic and traditional relations of friendship between the two countries would steadily develop”.
North Korea has recently highlighted its close ties with Russia, and publicly backed Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
In February, it blamed the Ukraine conflict on the “hegemonic policy” of the United States and the West.
BBC
