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Duma Speaker thanks North Korea for “liberation of Kursk” Speaker of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for “the liberation of Kursk” thanks to the sending of troops to repel the Ukrainians, Russian news agency TASS reported on Sunday. Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops – as well as missiles and munitions – to support Russia’s war against Ukraine. They were deployed to Russia’s western Kursk region to repel the Ukrainian army, which occupied the area for nearly a year from August 2024 to spring 2025. Seoul estimates that around 2,000 North Koreans have been killed in that war. In return, experts say, North Korea receives financial aid, military technology, as well as food and energy from Russia, allowing Pyongyang to circumvent heavy international sanctions on its banned nuclear programs. A Russian delegation, including Mr. Volodin, arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday to attend the dedication ceremony of a memorial complex honoring those killed supporting Moscow’s war effort against Ukraine. “We have agreed with the Ministry of Defense [de Corée du Nord] that our military cooperation be carried out on a sustainable, long-term basis,” said Andrei Beloussov, the Russian defense minister, during his meeting with Kim Jong-un, quoted by the TASS agency. “This year promises to be at least as rich in terms of bilateral contacts in many areas,” he also estimated. Vyacheslav Volodin expressed his “gratitude” to “Kim Jong-un, as well as to the Korean people for their fraternal support in the liberation of Kursk,” according to the TASS agency. “Korean soldiers fought shoulder to shoulder with our soldiers and officers, liberating Russian land from ‘Ukrainian Nazis,’” he added. A short video posted on the TASS Telegram account shows Volodin and Kim kissing.
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