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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hailed North Korea for “firmly supporting” Moscow’s war in Ukraine ahead of a visit to Pyongyang set to boost defense ties between the two nuclear-armed countries.
Historic allies since North Korea’s founding after World War II, Moscow and Pyongyang have drawn closer after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with Putin increasingly isolated internationally and looking for friends.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un made a rare overseas trip on his bulletproof train last September to meet Putin at a Russian spaceport, with Seoul subsequently claiming Pyongyang was shipping arms to Moscow for use in Ukraine, in exchange for Russian satellite know-how.
