{"id":918767,"date":"2026-04-26T01:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/918767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:39:12","slug":"russian-duma-chief-visits-pyongyang-ahead-of-kursk-memorial-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/918767\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Duma chief visits Pyongyang ahead of Kursk memorial inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin arrived in Pyongyang as the head of a high-level delegation and met with Supreme People\u2019s Assembly (SPA) Presidium Chairman Jo Yong Won, as North Korea and Russia highlighted deepening ties ahead of a ceremony honoring North Korean troops deployed to Russia\u2019s Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.xyz\/newstream\/1777154983-690237928\/%ED%95%B4%EC%99%B8%EA%B5%B0%EC%82%AC%EC%9E%91%EC%A0%84-%EC%A0%84%ED%88%AC%EC%9C%84%ED%9B%88%EA%B8%B0%EB%85%90%EA%B4%80-%EC%A4%80%EA%B3%B5%EC%8B%9D%EC%97%90-%EC%B0%B8%EA%B0%80%ED%95%98%EB%8A%94\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Sunday that the Russian delegation arrived Saturday at the invitation of the SPA and North Korea\u2019s Ministry of National Defense. Jo and Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jong Gyu greeted the delegation at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nknews.org\/2026\/04\/north-korea-to-bury-soldiers-from-ukraine-war-at-new-cemetery-mid-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected April 26 inauguration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin arrived in Pyongyang as the head of a high-level delegation and met&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[95012,3181,95013,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-918767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-foreign-relations","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-military-affairs","11":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116468460151260461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918767","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=918767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}