{"id":17949,"date":"2025-09-03T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=17949"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:31:11","slug":"russias-putin-praises-north-korean-troops-sent-to-fight-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/russias-putin-praises-north-korean-troops-sent-to-fight-against-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Putin praises North Korean troops sent to fight against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the troops sent by Pyongyang to fight in Moscow\u2019s war against Ukraine as he met with North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un after both leaders attended China\u2019s military parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYour special forces took part in the liberation of the Kursk region,\u201d Putin said, sitting next to Kim, referring to Russia\u2019s efforts to push back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/21\/europe\/putin-ukraine-russia-kursk-visit-intl-hnk\">Ukraine\u2019s counter-offensive<\/a> on Russian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI would like to note that your soldiers fought courageously and heroically. We will never forget the sacrifices made by your armed forces and the families of your servicemen,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Just a few days ago, North Korea released a propaganda film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/china-military-parade-xi-jinping-09-03-25-intl-hnk#cmf0ufdaq000v3b6nquct2cbu\">praising its troops\u2019 efforts<\/a> fighting for Russia and commemorating those killed. And in August, Kim held two events to meet bereaved families and pay tribute to deceased soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Western officials estimated that a third of the 12,000 North Korea troops believed to have been deployed so far were either killed or wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the troops sent by Pyongyang to fight in Moscow\u2019s war against Ukraine as he met with North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un after both leaders attended China\u2019s military parade. \u201cYour special forces took part in the liberation of the Kursk region,\u201d Putin said, sitting next to Kim, referring to Russia\u2019s efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Putin-and-Kim.png?fit=610%2C344&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17951,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions\/17951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}