Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Military Delegation of

Russian Federation

Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the
Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, received a military delegation of the Russian
Federation led by Vice-Minister of Defence Aleksey Krivoruchko on July
18.
He had a talk with the vice-minister of Defence of the Russian Federation.
The head of the delegation courteously conveyed the warm greetings of
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, to the
DPRK leader.
Kim Jong Un expressed deep thanks for it and asked him to convey his
kindly greetings to the Russian President.
At the talk they shared a common understanding of the importance and
necessity of the military cooperation between the two countries for
defending mutual security interests.
Kim Jong Un extended militant greetings to the Russian army and people
waging a sacred war of justice for defending the sovereign rights and
security of their state and expressed the DPRK government’s and people’s
invariably strong support for and firm solidarity with them over the special
military operations in Ukraine.
Appreciating once again the great significance of the DPRK-Russia
Pyongyang summit held last June, he stressed the need for the armies of the
two countries, linked by long-standing historical tradition and militant ties,
to get united more firmly to dynamically lead the DPRK-Russia relations in
the new era and play an important part in defending regional and global
peace and international justice.
The talk took place at the headquarters building of the Central Committee of
the WPK. -0-