“I categorical my honest due to you for sending heat and honest congratulations first on my reassumption of the heavy obligation as President of the State Affairs,” Kim Jong Un mentioned. Picture: Korean Central Information Company/Korea Information Service by way of AP
North Korea’s chief Kim Jong Un mentioned his nation will at all times help Russia and complimented his counterpart in a letter revealed by state media on Wednesday (March 25, 2026).
Ties between the 2 nations have grown nearer since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with Pyongyang dispatching floor troops and weapons techniques to help Russia’s warfare effort.
Analysts say the help has been supplied in change for Russia’s provision of meals and weapons know-how.
“I categorical my honest due to you for sending heat and honest congratulations first on my reassumption of the heavy obligation as President of the State Affairs,” Mr. Kim mentioned within the message on Tuesday (March 24), the official Korean Central Information Company mentioned.
North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature reappointed Mr. Kim this week as head of the authoritarian nation’s highest policymaking and governing physique.
“In the present day, the DPRK and Russia are intently cooperating to defend the sovereignty of the 2 nations,” Mr. Kim mentioned, utilizing the initials of the North’s official title.
“Pyongyang will at all times be with Moscow. That is our selection and unshakable will,” he added.
South Korean and Western intelligence businesses have estimated that the North has despatched hundreds of troopers to Russia, primarily to the Kursk area, together with artillery shells, missiles and long-range rocket techniques.
Round 2,000 troops have been killed and hundreds extra have been wounded, in accordance with South Korean estimates.
Mr. Putin and Mr. Kim struck a navy deal throughout Mr. Putin’s go to to Pyongyang in June 2024, obligating each states to offer navy help “at once” within the occasion of an assault on the opposite.
Mr. Kim’s letter follows Belarusian state media experiences that President Alexander Lukashenko would go to North Korea on a two-day journey from Wednesday (March 25) “to strengthen bilateral cooperation”.
Each nations have supplied help for Russia in its warfare on Ukraine and are adversaries of the West.
Revealed – March 25, 2026 11:26 pm IST