Kim supports Putin’s ‘holy war’ as North Korea-Russia relations deepen and border tensions rise

July 19, 2024

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with a Russian military delegation visiting Pyongyang in a sign of deepening security ties amid escalating tensions between the two Koreas on their border.

Kim received the group led by Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko for talks on military cooperation, during which the North Korean president pledged Pyongyang’s support for Russia’s operations in Ukraine, the official Korean news agency reported on Friday.

The visit comes about a month after the Russian President Wladimir Putin went to Pyongyang and he and Kim signed a mutual defense pactThe US and its partners said the trip increased the flow of munitions from North Korea to combat the ongoing Attack on Ukraine.

At the meeting with the delegation, Kim conveyed “militant greetings to the Russian army and the entire people in a Holy war justice to defend sovereign rights and state security,” KCNA said.

Kim benefited from cooperation with Russia, receiving aid to support his economy and military and, in return, supplying millions of ammunition and ballistic missiles to the Kremlin. United StatesSouth Korea and Japan have said. Pyongyang and Moscow have denied the arms transfers, although there is ample evidence that they took place.

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Kim promises Putin support in “holy” war with the West

At the same time, South Korea has accused Kim’s regime of increasing tensions on the border through military movements within the 4 km-wide buffer zone that separates the two countries and killing thousands of Balloons with garbage across the border.

The South Korean military has been conducting propaganda broadcasts over loudspeakers aimed north from its side of the border in response to a new shipment of garbage balloons sent by North Korea since Thursday evening, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Earlier this week, the sister of the North Korean leader warned Seoul She said there was a “cruel” price to pay for the anti-Pyongyang leaflets smuggled across the border from South Korea, suggesting her country may up the ante after sending garbage-laden balloons.

Tensions along the border, where the two countries have stationed hundreds of thousands of troops, have increased in recent weeks and fears are growing that the incident will escalate.

For decades, activist groups – many of them North Korean defectors who have settled in South Korea – have released balloons containing leaflets denouncing the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea since its founding. The balloons have also been loaded with U.S. dollar bills, sacks of rice and USB sticks with K-pop music to entice North Koreans to take the contents.

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