Sputnik/EPA-FE/Rex/ShuttockRussian President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirmed his “friendship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before his conversation with Donald Trump.
This also comes when the BBC reported the “slave -like” situation, in which thousands of North Korean workers were faced, which was sent to Russia to participate in construction projects.
Putin and Kim spoke on Tuesday, the Russian leader praised Pyongyang’s military support for their country’s war against Ukraine.
This week, Russia is making fresh military progress in Ukraine, which suddenly emphasized near the eastern city of Dobropilia and carried forward 10 km (six miles) in a short time.
Kremlin said in a statement, “Kim and Putin confirmed their commitment to further development of friendship relations, good-fidelity and cooperation,” Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin gave an update to the North Korean leader on the preparation of the Alaska Summit, shared with him, “information about the upcoming talks with US President Donald Trump,” said Kremlin.
The official North Korean statement did not mention it.
Repeating his earlier statement, Putin praised “aid provided by” [North Korea’s] According to his office, support during the liberation of the area of the Kursk region.
The Ukrainian army briefly attacked the Russian Kursk region in an unexpected aggressive last year, showing its ability to fight back against Russia, which is currently in about 20% of Ukraine’s areas.
Putin and Kim expected to travel to Alaska to meet Trump by the Russian leader, which was his first face-to-face meeting with the US President since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022.
The war, while Russia produces complete economic and diplomatic isolation from the West, has seen unprecedented cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang. According to Ukraine and South Korea, at least 10,000 North Korean troops have been sent to fight with their Russian counterparts.
North Korea also provided Russia missiles, artillery shells and laborers.
Along with many Russia people either killed or tied – or fled from the country – South Korean intelligence officials told the BBC that Moscow was rapidly trusting North Korean workers.
