Kim Jong-un's sister criticized the Ukrainian president for his claims about North Korea, and the U.S. for providing aid to Ukraine.

As Russia made progress in revising its nuclear policy amid its war with Ukraine, North Korea vowed to never give up its own nuclear weapons despite demands from the West.

Yet according to the head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency GUR, Kyrylo Budanov, the Kremlin's most important ally during the war isn't economically and militarily powerful China, but North Korea, an isolated pariah state whose economy has been damaged by decades of sanctions.

Growing military cooperation between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Russia has led to a surge of pearl-clutching among the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its allies in the corporate news media.

The United States has blacklisted a network accused of aiding financial payments between Russia and North Korea, two isolated countries that have grown financially and militarily closer amid the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.

The US and the West are also accomplices for arming Ukraine 'if we follow his logic', Kim Jong-un's powerful sister says North Korea is expected to increase its military backing for Russia, following a fiery response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's recent accusation that Pyongyang is acting as a "de facto accomplice" in Moscow's

The June 2024 mutual defense agreement between North Korea and Russia marks the culmination of years of growing ties between Pyongyang and Moscow. The Ukraine war served as a significant accelerant in the relationship.