North Korea and Russia are carrying out a new wave of propaganda to exalt their alliance, which has been deepened since Pyongyang sent about 15,000 soldiers to support the Russian war in Ukraine since last year, as reported .
In a popular Russian news program, images were highlighted where five North Korean soldiers were soring and carrying weapons in a training camp in Russia. Then they began to sing a song from the Soviet era called Katyushaon a young woman who says goodbye to the soldiers, with the letter translated into Korean. The medium also spread North Korean videos shooting shotguns, running through trenches and throwing hand grenades.
Moscow and Pyongyang kept secret for months the presence of North Korean troops in Russia. Now, both countries proclaim their alliance in times of war, presenting a much more promising panorama than the uncoordinated and conflicting relationship described by Ukraine and its allies.
Both countries recently broke their silence over North Korean soldiers sent to Russia since the past fall. Almost a third of them, or about 4,700, have been dead or injured, according to the South Korean espionage agency. In return, the Kim Jong-un regime has received Russian drones, a Satellite and Missile-Aire missile launcher, according to the agency.
“It is a campaign calculated to portray North Koreans as ‘Brothers of War’ of Russia, whose military support will not falter,” said Chris Monday, associate professor at the Dongseo University of South Korea who studies Russia and North Korea, according to the American newspaper. This has pointed out that a video published by the state media Rossiyskaya Gazeta It shows a Russian soldier a North Korean military waving a flag, a Russian and another of the Soviet Union. They plant them on the ground and hug.
The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, said that the participation of North Korean military in the fighting between Russia and Ukraine was “justified”, after Pyongyang officially confirmed the sending of forces to the Kursk region to support Russian troops to repel the incursion launched by kyiv in August 2024.
“Our participation in the war was justified and (it is a decision) that belongs to our sovereign rights,” he said during a visit to the Russian embassy in Pyongyang on the occasion of the events for Victory Day, held on May 9 in memory of the victory against Nazi Germany in World War II.
Thus, he said that “the peoples of Korea and Russia have dedicated their blood and their lives to defend themselves and rely on the struggle for their common ideals for a century,” while recalled the firm in June 2024 together with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, of a strategic relations agreement between the two countries.
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