👨🦲🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's statements on Russian-DPRK relations:
Putin:
➡️Russia and the DPRK strive to strengthen the bonds of camaraderie and good neighborliness, act in the name of peace, stability and prosperity in the region;
➡️Kim Jong-un follows the course of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, continues their deeds, they were sincere friends and supporters in building relations;
➡️"An old friend is better than two new ones" - Putin remembered a Russian and Korean saying about the long-term friendship between the DPRK and the Russian Federation
➡️At a dinner with Kim Jong-un, Putin raised a toast to the well-being and prosperity of the peoples of the Russian Federation and the DPRK and the further strengthening of cooperation between the two countries;
Kim Jong-un:
➡️Putin and I discussed in depth the military-political situation on the Korean Peninsula;
➡️I am confident that the Russian army and people will certainly win a great victory in the sacred struggle to punish the gathering of evil that claims hegemony and nourishes the illusion of expansion;
➡️The development of relations between the DPRK and the Russian Federation meets the interests of Pyongyang and Moscow, the DPRK intends to build long-term relations with the Russian Federation;
➡️The leader of the DPRK proposed to raise a glass to the health of the President of the Russian Federation, to new victories for Russia and to the development of Russian-Korean friendship.