He added that last year, 96 North Korean citizens were\u00a0accepted to Russian universities, including MGIMO, the university that trains diplomats. A further 29 were enrolled in geology courses in Russia this year.<\/p>\n
Kozlov said the two countries are cooperating in education across sectors such as banking, energy, medicine, and geology. He added that Russia is building a center in North Korea that will offer Russian-language education at Kim Chol Ju Normal University.<\/p>\n
Traditionally strong Russian ties with North Korea have been growing since the former\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
North Korea has been\u00a0supplying<\/a>\u00a0weapons to Russia and\u00a0sending<\/a>\u00a0troops to fight on the front lines and to demine<\/a>\u00a0the Kursk region, a Russian territory briefly occupied by Ukraine. Two of the world\u2019s most prolific state-linked cybercrime groups \u2014 Russia\u2019s Gamaredon and North Korea\u2019s Lazarus collective \u2014 have also been spotted sharing resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n In August 2025, Russian tourists flocked to North Korean resorts as Russian airlines launched direct flights to Pyongyang.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added that last year, 96 North Korean citizens were\u00a0accepted to Russian universities, including MGIMO, the university that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[6660,332,9322,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-597205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-north-korea","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-russian-politics","11":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115621881841684343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597205","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=597205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}