In a letter to Kim for North Korea's liberation day, Putin announced that closer ties would be in both countries' interests and would assist in strengthening the security and stability of the Korean peninsula and the Northeastern Asian region, North Korea's KCNA news agency stated.
Kim likewise addressed a letter to Putin stating that Russian-North Korean friendship had been forged in World War II with victory over Japan, which had occupied the Korean peninsula.
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The "strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity" between the two nations has since reached a new level is their common attempts to frustrate threats and provocations from hostile military forces, Kim announced in the letter. KCNA did not identify the hostile forces, yet it has typically used that term to refer to the United States and its allies.
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Kim predicted cooperation between Russia and North Korea would grow based on an agreement signed in 2019 when he met with Putin.
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North Korea in July recognized two Russian-backed breakaway "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine as independent states, and officials raised the prospect of North Korean workers being sent to the areas to help in construction and other labor.
Ukraine, resisting a Russian attack described by Moscow as a "special military operation", immediately severed relations with Pyongyang over the move.
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