Kim Jong Un, the president of North Korea, wrote a holiday message to Vladimir Putin, calling him his” closest comrade.”
Kim added that if Putin were to celebrate his 72nd day, relations between the two nations did reach new heights.
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, relations between Pyongyang and Moscow have gotten closer, which has worried the West.
Kim also stated on Tuesday that Pyongyang may accelerate efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and make it a military superpower.
Kim praised relations between the two nations, calling them “invincible and eternal,” since Putin’s attend to Pyongyang in June, according to Yonhap News, quoting North Korean state media KCNA.
” Sessions and brotherly relations between us… will create a positive commitment to more consolidating the eternal base of the DPRK-Russia friendship”, he added, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Although it was unclear what would constitute anger, Putin and Kim agreed to assist one another in the event of “aggression” against either nation in a letter of earlier this year.
Kim has been accused of aiding Russia in its conflict with Ukraine by supplying it with arms in exchange for economic and technological support.
Growing evidence suggests that Russia has been stationed in Ukraine with North Korean weapons.
Kim and Putin were” trying to reduce the pain of global restrictions by creating an additional network of friends and colleagues beyond the reach of US sanctions,” according to Jeffrey Lewis, a director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
After many failed launch by Pyongyang, Putin had likewise promised to assist North Korea in developing its satellites during a visit by Kim to Russia in September 2023.
A North Korean lawmaker also made the similarly held claim that Seoul’s war had discovered clear indications that North Korea had begun to build a potential nuclear submarine.
Rep. Kang Dae-sik, citing Korea’s knowledge company, stated that “further confirmation is needed on whether it is radioactive controlled.”