{"id":264681,"date":"2025-07-14T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264681\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:36:14","slug":"kim-jong-un-reaffirms-support-for-russias-war-in-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264681\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un reaffirms support for Russia’s war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to North Korean state media KCNA news agency, Kim and Lavrov met on Saturday in “an atmosphere full of warm comradely trust”.<\/p>\n

The North Korean leader also expressed a “firm belief that the Russian army and people would surely win victory in accomplishing the sacred cause of defending the dignity and basic interests of the country”.<\/p>\n

On Telegram, Russia’s foreign ministry posted a video showing the two men shaking hands and greeting each other with a hug.<\/p>\n

North Korea’s renewed military support for Russia comes as US President Donald Trump has resumed military supplies to Ukraine<\/a>, after a brief hiatus.<\/p>\n

Trump told NBC News on Thursday that he had made a deal with Nato for the US to send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine via the alliance, after a surge of Russian aerial attacks.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang first publicly acknowledged sending troops to Russia in April, months after Ukraine and the West revealed the large-scale troop movement from North Korea to the Russian-Ukrainian frontline.<\/p>\n

Kim signed an accord<\/a> with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in June last year, agreeing to support each other if either country was dealing with “aggression”.<\/p>\n

Apart from soldiers, North Korea also promised to send thousands of workers to help rebuild Russia’s war-torn Kursk region, Moscow’s security chief said<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to North Korean state media KCNA news agency, Kim and Lavrov met on Saturday in “an atmosphere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-264681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852567545820936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}