{"id":71349,"date":"2025-04-28T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/28\/north-korea-troops-fighting-for-russia-ukraine-confirmed-kim-jong-un"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:07:06","slug":"north-korea-confirms-for-first-time-it-has-sent-troops-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71349","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Kim confirm for first time North Koreans fought for Russia in Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledgment, after long silence over deployment, comes as Russia claims it has recaptured Kursk region <\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un have confirmed for the first time that North Korea has <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/2024\/oct\/10\/north-korea-engineers-deployed-russia-ukraine\">sent troops to fight for Russia <\/a>in the war with Ukraine, with both leaders describing the soldiers as \u201cheroes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The acknowledgment comes amid claims by the Kremlin \u2013 contested by Ukraine \u2013 that North Korean forces helped recapture Russia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/14\/ukraine-kursk-retreat-russia-incursion-peace-negotiations\">Kursk region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/28\/north-korea-troops-fighting-for-russia-ukraine-confirmed-kim-jong-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledgment, after long silence over deployment, comes as Russia claims it has recaptured Kursk region Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un have confirmed for the first time that North Korea has sent troops to fight for Russia in the war with Ukraine, wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,40,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71349\/revisions\/71363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}