{"id":623454,"date":"2025-12-10T04:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623454\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:19:13","slug":"north-korean-comrades-fighting-for-russia-deserve-medals-kursk-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623454\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean \u2018comrades\u2019 fighting for Russia deserve medals, Kursk governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of Russia\u2019s Kursk region is seeking to award North Korean troops fighting against Ukrainian forces with medals, following plans to install a <a href=\"https:\/\/nknews.org\/2025\/12\/russias-kursk-set-to-build-memorial-for-north-korean-troops-who-fought-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorial<\/a> to celebrate Russia-DPRK military ties.<\/p>\n<p>Regional authorities notified the Russian Defense Ministry of their \u201creadiness to honor our combat comrades, our brother warriors of the Korean People\u2019s Army,\u201d Governor Alexander Khinshtein <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tass_agency\/352214\">said<\/a> in an interview at a local medal-awarding ceremony in Kursk on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The governor of Russia\u2019s Kursk region is seeking to award North Korean troops fighting against Ukrainian forces with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[95012,95013,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-623454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-foreign-relations","9":"tag-military-affairs","10":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115693352813799819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623454","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=623454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}