N. Korea's Kim stresses shared bloodshed in New Year message to Putin


SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (pic) highlighted on Saturday (Dec 27) how his nation and Russia had shared "blood, life and death" in the Ukraine war, as he sent President Vladimir Putin new year's greetings.

Pyongyang has dispatched thousands of troops to fight for Moscow, according to South Korean and Western intelligence agencies, as Russia presses ahead with its nearly four-year invasion of Ukraine.

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