North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a congratulatory message to Vladimir Putin on Monday that Russian voters had shown “unshakeable support” for their re-elected president, state media reported.
“Your re-election to the heavy responsibility of the head of state is the Russian people’s valuable estimate of the outstanding leadership and tenacious executive ability you displayed in state activities with a high prestige as the leader of the nation,” Kim said, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
He added that Putin’s victory was an expression of Russian voters’ “unshakeable support and trust in” the Russian leader.
Russia and North Korea, historical allies, are both under a raft of global sanctions — Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine and Pyongyang for its testing of nuclear weapons.
In September, Putin and Kim held a summit in Russia’s far east, with the…
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