At the end of September, the new ambassador of Russia in North Korea paid tribute to two monuments in Pyongyang that mark the beginning and end of almost eight decades of shared history between the two countries. The official media showed Andrei Podelyshev first visiting the Tower of Soviet Liberation, which honors the Red Army troops to which North Korea attributed the liberation of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese rule in 1945. Then he depos…
At the end of September, the new ambassador of Russia in North Korea paid tribute to two monuments in Pyongyang that mark the beginning and end of almost eight decades of shared history between the two countries. The official media showed Andrei Podelyshev first visiting the Tower of Soviet Liberation, which honors the Red Army troops to which North Korea attributed the liberation of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese rule in 1945. Then he depos…