North's foreign minister calls troop deployment to Russia 'exemplary case' of treaty with Moscow: Report
Published: 31 Mar. 2026, 17:28
Updated: 31 Mar. 2026, 17:31
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North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui speaks at a meeting in Pyongyang in this file photo captured from the Korean Central Television on Oct. 20, 2023. [YONHAP]
North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui has met with the head of Russia's Tass news agency and called her country's troop deployment to Russia an “exemplary case” of implementing a treaty with Moscow, a Russian news report showed on Tuesday.
Choe met with Tass Director General Andrey Kondrashov on Monday, as a delegation from the Russian news agency has been visiting Pyongyang since Saturday. The visit included the signing of a media cooperation agreement with the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
“[North Korean leader] Kim Jong-un, mobilizing a specific article of the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement [with Russia], decided to send our units to the Kursk region, and this is an exemplary case of the implementation of this agreement,” Tass quoted Choe as saying.
The foreign minister also expressed confidence that Tass's “information activities would make the most significant contribution to the development of friendly relations” between the two countries.
The North deployed around 15,000 combat troops to support Russia in its war against Ukraine since Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the strategic partnership treaty in June 2024.
The KCNA separately reported on Tuesday that the Tass delegation also met with Jo Yong-won — the new chairman of the standing committee of North Korea's parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly — on Monday.
During the meeting, Jo pledged to remain faithful to the spirit and obligations of the North Korea-Russia treaty, Tass said.
Yonhap
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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