"Kim Jong Un said that his country's ties with Russia had been strengthened through sharing blood, life and death in the same trench in the Ukraine war, as he sent a New Year's greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kim's message followed President Putin's own New Year's greeting to the North Korean leader on December 18, which praised the heroic role played by Pyongyang's troops in Russia's western Kursk region and clearly proved the invincible friendship between the two countries, state media reported."
"In his message to Putin, published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Saturday, Kim said 2025 was a really meaningful year for bilateral ties, and called relations between Moscow and Pyongyang a precious common asset to be carried forward forever not only in the present era but also by posterity generation after generation. Now no one can break the relations between the peoples of the two countries and their unity, Kim said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency."
"North Korea officially confirmed in April that it had deployed troops to support Russia's military campaign against Ukraine and that its soldiers had been killed in combat. Earlier this month, Kim acknowledged that North Korean troops were sent to clear landmines in Russia's Kursk region in August 2025, following a Ukrainian incursion, and that at least nine soldiers from an engineering regiment were killed during the 120-day deployment."
Kim Jong Un sent a New Year's greeting to Vladimir Putin praising ties strengthened through shared blood, life and death in the same trench during the Ukraine war. Putin earlier praised Pyongyang's troops' role in Russia's Kursk region and described the relationship as invincible. South Korean and Western intelligence assess that North Korea deployed thousands of troops to support Russia in Ukraine. North Korea confirmed in April that soldiers were deployed and suffered combat deaths. Kim acknowledged an August 2025 deployment to clear landmines in Kursk after a Ukrainian incursion, with at least nine engineering soldiers killed during a 120-day deployment.
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