{"id":94438,"date":"2026-07-22T04:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/94438\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:07:07","slug":"north-korea-reaffirms-support-for-moscow-over-ukraine-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/94438\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea reaffirms support for Moscow over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEOUL \u2014 North Korea reaffirmed its support for Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine as the nations\u2019 foreign ministers met in Moscow, Pyongyang\u2019s state media reported Tuesday, increasing speculation Kim Jong Un may soon visit the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Diplomatically isolated North Korea and Russia have rapidly expanded cooperation since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang has sent troops to Russia\u2019s embattled Kursk region and supplied Moscow with weapons systems, in return securing financial assistance, food, energy supplies and military technology, analysts say.<\/p>\n

Following a Moscow meeting between North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Pyongyang\u2019s state media said the nations had \u201creaffirmed their steadfast political will to accelerate the long-term multi-faceted development of the bilateral relations\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\n EXPANDED COLLABORATION Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomes North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui ahead of a meeting in Moscow on July 20, 2026. AFP Photo\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe DPRK side expressed invariable support for all the internal and external policies of the Russian Federation to eliminate the root cause of the Ukrainian dispute and defend its national sovereignty, territorial integrity and international justice,\u201d state news agency KCNA said.<\/p>\n

The agency reported that Russia, meanwhile, expressed full support for North Korea\u2019s efforts to defend its sovereignty and security.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like once again to express my gratitude for the support provided to the special military operation we are conducting,\u201d Putin said in a video released by the Kremlin on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Choe laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers by the wall of the Kremlin on her visit, KCNA said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Kim Jong Un last travelled to Russia in September 2023, and Putin made a rare visit to Pyongyang in June 2024.<\/p>\n

Choe\u2019s visit to Moscow could have been aimed at discussing a trip to Russia by Kim later this year, according to South Korean media reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin has repeatedly invited Kim to visit Russia since his trip to Pyongyang in 2024,\u201d Park Won-gon, a professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University, told AFP.<\/p>\n

Chinese president Xi Jinping made a rare trip to Pyongyang last month, where he and Kim pledged to bolster ties.<\/p>\n

While Pyongyang has drawn closer to Moscow, China remains North Korea\u2019s largest economic partner, accounting for nearly 98 percent of the country\u2019s foreign trade in 2024, according to official figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping this year, Kim would have a strong incentive to visit Russia as well,\u201d Park said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would showcase North Korea breaking out of diplomatic isolation while highlighting support from both China and Russia, reinforcing the image of a North Korea-China-Russia alignment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2014 North Korea reaffirmed its support for Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine as the nations\u2019 foreign ministers met…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26799,134,11570,49152,2339,49151,49150,49153,49149,178,141,31,48981,1216,2696,132,47002,34,48006,129,137,47725,49148,130,1797,1334],"class_list":["post-94438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-bilateral-relations","tag-china","tag-choe-son-hui","tag-diplomatic-isolation","tag-dprk","tag-energy-supplies","tag-financial-assistance","tag-foreign-trade","tag-international-justice","tag-kcna","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-kremlin","tag-kursk","tag-military-technology","tag-moscow","tag-national-sovereignty","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-china-russia-alignment","tag-pyongyang","tag-russia","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-territorial-integrity","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}