North Korea Honours Soldiers Killed In Russia War

Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Defence Minister Andrei Belousov inaugurated a memorial museum in Pyongyang on Sunday for North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Moscow in Ukraine.

South Korean intelligence estimates 15,000 North Korean troops were sent to the Kursk front, with at least 2,000 killed. Belousov decorated North Korean soldiers and announced a new Russian-North Korean military cooperation plan covering 2027 to 2031.

Putin’s letter to Kim, read aloud at the ceremony, hailed “friendship and solidarity” between the two states.

Pyongyang has received economic aid, missile technology and food from Moscow in exchange for soldiers and ammunition, deepening one of the most dangerous strategic alignments in modern Asia.