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Putin holds call with North Korea’s Kim, discusses coming talks with Trump
The Russian leader expressed appreciation for North Korea’s help in Ukraine’s Kursk region
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President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and updated him on planned talks the Russian leader will hold with US President Donald Trump in Alaska this week, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
North Korea’s state news agency later reported the two leaders’ call, without mentioning the meeting scheduled for Friday between Putin and Trump.
Putin and Kim spoke by phone in a “warm comradely atmosphere” and confirmed “their will to strengthen cooperation in the future”, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
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The leaders discussed the development in the countries’ ties under a strategic partnership agreement signed last year “confirming their will to strengthen cooperation in the future”, KCNA said.
Putin expressed appreciation for North Korea’s help in “liberating” the Kursk region in western Russia in the war against Ukraine and “the bravery, heroism and self-sacrificing spirit displayed by service personnel of the Korean People’s Army”, it said.
Kim in turn pledged that North Korea would “fully support all measures to be taken by the Russian leadership in the future, too”.
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