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The call between the two leaders comes from the days in advance on the summit of American president Donald Trump with Putin in Alaska.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the “bravery” and “heroism” of North Korean soldiers in the report of the Kursk Russia region of Ukrainian forces during a call with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the North Korean media reported.
Putin told Kim that he had “greatly appreciated” the support of North Korea and “the spirit of self-secrification” displayed by his troops during the release of the Western region, the Korean central news agency (KCNA) reported on Wednesday.
Kim expressed his “sincere thanks” to Putin and said that Pyongyang “would always remain faithful” to the spirit of the mutual defense treaty signed by the parties last year, as well as “fully support all the measures to be taken by Russian management in the future,” said KCNA.
“The heads of the states of the two countries have exchanged points of view on questions of mutual concern,” said KCNA.
“Kim Jong Un and Putin agreed to contact a closer contact in the future.”
The call, a few days before Putin could meet the American president Donald Trump in Alaska to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine, is the last sign of strengthening the links between North Korea and Russia in the midst of Moscow’s ostracization on the world scene.
“There are still a lot of if in the air, but the call suggests that there is a role for Russia, such as the role that South Korea played in 2018, helping to create an opening for American-DPRK relations,” said Al Jenny Town, director of the Korea program of the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, Al Jazeera.
“It may not be a focal point of the next meeting, but it will probably be part of the conversation.”
Last month, Kim told the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov that Pyongyang “would unconditionally support” all measures taken by Moscow in Ukraine, according to the North Korean media.
North Korea has deployed more than 10,000 soldiers to support the Russian war and has established plans to send more thousands, according to assessments of the National Intelligence Service in South Korea.
In April, Putin announced that Moscow had fully resumed Kursk, although Ukrainian officials challenged his assertion that the whole region had been under Russian control.
On Friday, at his top planned with Putin, Trump should press the Russian chief to accept a peace agreement.
On Monday, he told journalists that he would probably know in the “first two minutes” to meet Putin if they could conclude an agreement and that any agreement would imply “an exchange, field changes” between Moscow and kyiv.
