North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un said military brotherhood between his country and Russia would "advance non-stop," the state-run KCNA news agency reported.View on euronews

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to build a museum in Pyongyang in honour of the soldiers of the Korean People's Army who took part in the military operation to "liberate Russia's Kursk Oblast" – that is,

Kim Jong Un made the comments at the groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial for North Korean soldiers who fought for Russia in its war with Ukraine, state media said.

North Korea and Russia are strategic allies. The East Asian nation supplied caches of weapons as well as some 15,000 troops, according to South Korean estimates, to aid the Russian war effort against Ukraine. The Koreans mainly fought in Kursk, successfully beating back a Ukrainian invasion of the Russian border region.

North Korea is constructing a memorial hall in Pyongyang to honor soldiers who died while deployed to assist Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. The North’s state media, Korean Central News Agency, reported on the 24th that “the Combat Merit Memorial Hall,

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the directors at Moscow's Museum of Victory.