US EditionNK Leader Kim Sends New Year's Message to Putin, Calls Bilateral Ties 'Precious Common Asset'
Kim Jong Un highlighted full mutual support and noted about 15,000 North Korean troops aiding Russia, reinforcing their strategic and military alliance in 2024–2025.
- SEOUL, Dec. 27 — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a New Year's greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling their alliance a "precious common asset," Rodong Sinmun and Yonhap reported.
- Deepening ties after the comprehensive strategic partnership have led Putin earlier to send a Dec. 18 message praising the Korean People's Army, as Kim called their relationship 'precious.'
- According to KCNA, Kim Jong Un wrote that 2025 was meaningful as the countries steadily wrote a great biography of the alliance through full mutual support and selfless encouragement.
- Kim Jong Un framed the ties as consolidated into a closest-form alliance, sharing 'blood, life and death,' and asserted the relationship was unbreakable.
- Since last year, North Korea has deployed forces to Kursk, western Russian region, sending around 15,000 combat troops, while reports say Russia provided technical support on a vessel unveiled as a nuclear-powered submarine.
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North Korean leader Kim stresses unity with Russia in message to Putin
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin stressing the unity between the countries. He said their "alliance" today is "a precious common asset to be carried forward forever."
Pyongyang sent thousands of soldiers to fight alongside Moscow in his war of invasion of Ukraine, launched almost four years ago, according to South Korean and Western intelligence agencies.
First Putin thanked him for the »heroic commitment«, now Kim Jong Un celebrates in his New Year's message the military alliance in the war against Ukraine. No one can break the relations of the two peoples.
North Korea and Russia shared "blood, life and death" during the war in Ukraine, stressed this Friday, 26 December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in addressing his New Year 2026 vows to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Pyongyang sent thousands of soldiers to fight alongside Moscow in his war of invasion of Ukraine, launched almost four years ago, according to South Korean and Western intelligence agencies.
The two countries have significantly strengthened their military cooperation since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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