[🇷🇺] Russia and North Korea friendship

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Date of Event: Dec 6, 2024 Source : https://www.thedailystar.net/news/world/news/n-korea-russia-defence-treaty-comes-force-3769441

N Korea, Russia defence treaty comes into force

A landmark defence pact between North Korea and Russia, signed by its leaders in June, has gone into effect after the two sides exchanged ratification documents, North Korea's official KCNA news agency said yesterday.

The formalisation of the treaty comes as the United States and South Korea have accused the nuclear-armed North of sending more than 10,000 soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine.

Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the strategic partnership deal during the Kremlin chief's visit to Pyongyang.

It obligates both states to provide military assistance "without delay" in the case of an attack on the other,. It came into effect from Wednesday when the ratification documents were exchanged in Moscow by the countries' vice foreign ministers Kim Jong Gyu and Andrei Rudenko, KCNA reported.​

 

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North Korea deploys more troops to Russia

North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and re-deployed several to the frontline in Kursk, Seoul’s spy agency said on Thursday.

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North Korea deploys more troops to Russia
Agence France-Presse . Seoul 27 February, 2025, 23:03

North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and re-deployed several to the frontline in Kursk, Seoul’s spy agency said on Thursday.

South Korean and Western intelligence agencies have said that more than 10,000 soldiers from the reclusive state were sent to Russia last year to help it fight a shock Ukrainian offensive into the Kursk border region.

Earlier this month, Seoul said North Korean soldiers previously fighting alongside Russia’s army on the Kursk frontline had not been engaged in combat since mid-January.

Ukraine also said they had been withdrawn following heavy losses.

On Thursday, an official from Seoul’s National Intelligence Agency said they had been ‘redeployed’ there.

That came alongside ‘some additional troop deployments appearing to have taken place,’ the official added.

‘The exact scale is still being assessed,’ the official said.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have confirmed the deployment.

But the two countries signed an agreement, including a mutual defence clause, when Russian president Vladimir Putin made a rare visit to the nuclear-armed North last year.

Ukraine has previously said it captured or killed several North Korean soldiers in Kursk.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has also released footage of interrogations with what he said were North Korean prisoners captured by the Ukrainian army there.

And this month, Seoul’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper published an interview with a North Korean soldier describing ‘brutal’ fighting on the frontline.

The soldier, who was visibly wounded, told the paper that many of his fellow North Korean soldiers had been killed by drones and artillery fire.

‘Everyone who joined the army with me is dead,’ he said.

Pyongyang and Moscow have deepened political, military and cultural ties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

In a New Year’s letter, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed Putin and made a possible reference to the war in Ukraine.

He said 2025 would be the year ‘when the Russian army and people defeat neo-Nazism and achieve a great victory’.

On Wednesday, North Korean state media reported Kim had visited a major military academy, urging troops to harness the ‘actual experiences of modern warfare’.​