North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a nuclear submarine factory and received a message from Russia’s Vladimir Putin hailing the countries’ “invincible friendship”, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday.<\/p>\n
North Korea and Russia have drawn closer since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, and Pyongyang has sent troops to fight for Russia, AFP said.<\/p>\n
In return, Russia is sending North Korea financial aid, military technology and food and energy supplies, analysts say.<\/p>\n
The “heroic” efforts of North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region “clearly proved the invincible friendship” between Moscow and Pyongyang, Putin said in a message to Kim, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).<\/p>\n
Their work demonstrated the nations’ “militant fraternity”, Putin said in the message received by Pyongyang last week.<\/p>\n
The provisions of the “historic treaty” the two leaders signed last year, which includes a mutual defense clause, had been fulfilled “thanks to our joint efforts”, Putin wrote.<\/p>\n
South Korean and Western intelligence agencies have estimated that the North has sent thousands of soldiers to Russia, primarily to Kursk, along with artillery shells, missiles and long-range rocket systems.<\/p>\n
Around 2,000 troops have been killed and thousands more have been wounded, according to South Korean estimates.<\/p>\n
North Korea acknowledged this month that its troops in Kursk had been assigned to clear mines and that some had died on deployment.<\/p>\n
KCNA reported Putin’s letter on the same day that it published details of Kim’s undated recent visit to a manufacturing base for nuclear-powered submarines.<\/p>\n
There, the North Korean leader vowed to counter the “threat” of South Korea producing its own such vessels.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has given the green light for South Korea to build “nuclear-powered attack submarines”, though key details of the project remain uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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