{"id":620172,"date":"2025-12-08T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620172\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:01:26","slug":"russias-ambassador-in-north-korea-dies-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620172\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Ambassador in North Korea Dies at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s ambassador to North Korea has passed away at the age of 70, the Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/mid.ru\/ru\/foreign_policy\/news\/2064011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Monday, without disclosing the cause of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Alexander Matsegora <a href=\"https:\/\/dprk.mid.ru\/ru\/press-relize\/novosti_posolstva\/posol_rossii_v_kndr_poobshchalsya_s_koreevedami_iz_moskovskogo_gorodskogo_pedagogicheskogo_universit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was seen<\/a> in public as recently as last Tuesday, when he met with Russian university students taking Korean language courses in Moscow. Photos released by the Foreign Ministry showed him giving a lecture and talking with instructors.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing Matsegora\u2019s death, Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry praised the late diplomat as having made \u201csignificant contributions to the establishment and deepening of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed an agreement last year that pledges mutual aid if either country faces \u201caggression,\u201d a strategic pact that came as both countries had grown closer amid their standoff with the West. <\/p>\n<p>Following the signing of that partnership deal, Pyongyang sent thousands of its troops to Russia\u2019s Kursk region to fend off a Ukrainian offensive there.<\/p>\n<p>Matsegora was appointed ambassador to North Korea in 2014. Before that, he served as Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry\u2019s First Asian Department, a post he took up after a five-year stint as counsellor-envoy at the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>Putin awarded the late diplomat the prestigious Order of Alexander Nevsky in February 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s ambassador to North Korea has passed away at the age of 70, the Foreign Ministry said Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[37209,6660,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-620172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-foreign-ministry","9":"tag-north-korea","10":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115684316468747599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620172","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=620172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}