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Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was the initiative of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to send Pyongyang’s troops to fight against Ukrainian forces in Kursk.
South Korea estimates that some 2,000 North Korean troops died defending Kursk against a cross-border incursion by Ukraine.
Putin and Kim met in Beijing, China, where they are attending celebrations and a military parade to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
“At your initiative, as is well known, your special units took part in the liberation of the Kursk region, in full accordance with our new treaty,” Putin said, originally in Russian, state news agency TASS reported.
“I want to note that your soldiers fought bravely and heroically.”
Kim told Putin it was North Korea’s “fraternal duty” to Russia to do so.
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