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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un have vowed to strengthen cooperation, days ahead of Putin’s summit in Alaska with Donald Trump, Pyongyang’s state media reported Wednesday.
Putin and Kim spoke by phone in a “warm comradely atmosphere” on Tuesday and confirmed “their will to strengthen cooperation in the future”, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Putin expressed appreciation for “the self-sacrificing spirit displayed by service personnel of the Korean People’s Army in liberating Kursk”, KCNA added, a reference to North Korea’s participation in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Kim, in turn, pledged that North Korea would “fully support all measures to be taken by the Russian leadership in the future, too”.