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North Korea will stand with Russia until ‘victory’ in Ukraine and expand its nuclear arsenal
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North Korea will stand with Russia until ‘victory’ in Ukraine and expand its nuclear arsenal

North Korea will stay by my side Russia until its victory in Ukraine, Pyongyang’s foreign minister said in Moscow on Friday, as the United States warned that thousands of North Korean troops could be sent to fight in the country. Ukrainian conflictt in the next few days.

North Korean Choe Son Hui was in Moscow as the West estimates that up to 10,000 North Korean troops are training in Russia and are set to enter the more than two-year-old conflict in the sides of Russia.

“We will always stand firmly alongside our Russian comrades until Victory Day,” Choe said in Moscow after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

She said North Korea had no doubts about the president’s “wise leadership.” Vladimir Putinwhich signed a mutual assistance pact with Pyongyang this summer and massively warmed ties with the reclusive state.
Choe called Moscow’s offensive more than two years old in Ukraine a “sacred struggle”.