North Korean leader Kim Jong ‌Un said his country would continue to support Russia’s policies and discussed bolstering military ties with Moscow.

Axar.az informs, citing Reuters, a Russian delegation including Defense Minister Andrei Belousov attended a completion ceremony for a memorial honoring North Korean soldiers killed while fighting in Russia’s ​Kursk region.

Kim said in a speech marking the memorial’s completion that North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces had “wiped out the aggressors,” ​adding that this had thwarted what he described as “the United States’ and the West’s hegemonic ambitions and military adventurism”.

“The North Korean government ​would continue to fully support Russia’s policies of defending its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests,” Kim noted.