{"id":340813,"date":"2025-08-13T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340813\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:40:14","slug":"north-koreas-kim-and-russias-putin-discuss-war-efforts-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340813\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea’s Kim and Russia’s Putin discuss war efforts against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call to discuss their deepening ties and war efforts against Ukraine, the countries\u2019 state media said Wednesday, ahead of Putin\u2019s planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska.<\/p>\n

Putin during the call on Tuesday praised the \u201cbravery, heroism and self-sacrificing spirit\u201d displayed by North Korean troops as they fought with Russian forces to repel a Ukrainian incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk border region<\/a>, North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n

Putin also shared with Kim information about his upcoming talks with Trump scheduled to take place Friday in Alaska, according to Russia\u2019s TASS news agency, citing the Kremlin. The North Korean reports did not mention the Trump meeting.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un pose for a photo during a signing ceremony of the new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un pose for a photo during a signing ceremony of the new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)<\/p>\n

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Kim told Putin that Pyongyang will fully support \u201call measures to be taken by the Russian leadership in the future, too,\u201d as they discussed advancing ties in \u201call fields\u201d under a strategic partnership agreement they signed during a summit last year, KCNA said.<\/p>\n

Since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Kim has made Moscow the priority of his foreign policy as he aims to break out of diplomatic isolation and expand relations with countries confronting Washington. His government has dismissed Washington and Seoul\u2019s stated desires to restart diplomacy aimed at defusing the North\u2019s nuclear program, which derailed in 2019 following a collapsed summit with Trump<\/a> during his first term.<\/p>\n

According to South Korean assessments, North Korea has sent around 15,000 troops to Russia since last fall and also supplied large quantities of military equipment, including artillery and ballistic missiles, in support of Putin\u2019s war efforts against Ukraine. Kim has also agreed to send thousands of military construction workers and deminers<\/a> to Russia\u2019s Kursk region, a deployment South Korean intelligence believes could happen soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[6305,32,2000,299,4179,8615,29515,13289,285,332,7659,7661,13292,657,333,7660,10673,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-340813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-alaska","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-international-news","14":"tag-kim-jong-un","15":"tag-north-korea-government","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-russia-government","19":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","20":"tag-south-korea-government","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-war-and-unrest","24":"tag-washington-news","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115020800021640427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340813","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=340813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}