Kim meets Putin, vows North Korea’s continued military support for Russia

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would continue to “fully support” Russia and its army as a “fraternal duty” of its treaty with Moscow, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. Kim held a meeting on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of China’s celebrations to mark the formal surrender of Japan in World War Two in Beijing. advertisement Kim and Putin flanked Chinese President Xi Jinping at a massive military parade for the first such gathering of the three countries’ leaders since the early days of the Cold War. Kim’s Beijing trip offered his…