Kim Jong-un Reaffirms Alliance with Russia During Victory Day Visit to Russian Embassy

 Pyongyang,  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang on Friday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The event served as a platform for Kim to reiterate Pyongyang’s deepening alliance with Moscow and to pledge military support in the event of Western-backed aggression against Russia.

Accompanied by senior government and military officials, including Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui, Defense Minister No Kwang-chol, and his daughter, Kim laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame monument to honor fallen Soviet soldiers. The ceremony, described by state media as a tribute to the "heroic lives and feats of the unknown soldiers," underscored the symbolic and strategic ties between North Korea and Russia.

In a speech delivered at the embassy, Kim extended personal greetings to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he described as a “seasoned leader of a powerful state” and his “closest friend and comrade.” He praised the Soviet Union’s role in defeating fascism but warned that its legacy is under threat from what he described as the "revival of Nazism."

“The resurgence of Nazism poses a grave and intolerable threat,” Kim said. He harshly criticized Ukraine's military actions along the Russian border, referring to recent Ukrainian incursions into Russian territory. “We condemn these actions in the strongest terms as hysterical provocations carried out by the Kiev neo-Nazis,” he added.

Kim claimed that North Korean forces had contributed to the defense of Russia’s Kursk Region during a recent conflict and cited the 2024 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty as the basis for further military collaboration.

“If the agents of the United States and its Western allies—armed with inferior and substandard weaponry—dare to provoke the Russian Federation again, I will not hesitate to order the deployment of the armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to repel the enemy’s invasion,” Kim declared.

North Korean military personnel, including senior commanders, were also present at the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, where President Putin publicly acknowledged their role in defending Russian territory. The event highlighted the growing strategic alignment between Pyongyang and Moscow amid heightened global tensions.