Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov began his three-day visit to North Korea on Saturday, highlighting growing cooperation between the two countries during the Ukraine conflict.

Moscow and Pyongyang signed a defense pact in June 2024, after which North Korea deployed troops to help repel a large-scale Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

During a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui in Wonsan, Lavrov praised the “invincible brotherhood” between the two nations.

“This assessment proved true in the Kursk region, where the heroic soldiers of the Korean People’s Army, alongside Russian troops, advanced the…

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