Vladimir Putin thanks Kim Jong-un for supplying North Korean troops to fight Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin thanks Kim Jong-un for supplying North Korean troops to fight Ukraine  The Russian president praised Pyongyang's support during a meeting between the two leaders in Beijing on Wednesday.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/03/vladimir-putin-thanks-kim-jong-un-for-supplying-north-korean-troops-to-fight-ukraine  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked North Korea's Kim Jong-un for supplying troops to

00:05fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine during a meeting between the two allies in Beijing.

00:12South Korean intelligence suggests that North Korea has sent roughly 15,000 troops to Russia

00:17since last year. Thousands are believed to have been killed or wounded during fighting

00:23in Russia's Korsk region, where Ukrainian troops launched a surprise offensive in August 2024.

00:30Experts believe Moscow sent North Korea goods, including military equipment and oil,

00:34in exchange for its military support. North Korea has publicly acknowledged it dispatched

00:41soldiers to the Russia-Ukraine border in April and pledged to send construction workers to help

00:46rebuild parts of the war-torn Korsk region. Their alliance comes as both deal with a

00:52raft of international sanctions, with Moscow targeted over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

00:57and North Korea over its nuclear program. The pair's rare meeting came as China held

01:04one of its largest-ever military parades in Beijing, commemorating 80 years since

01:08the end of the Second World War in Asia.

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