{"id":72703,"date":"2025-07-01T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/01\/kim-jong-un-tribute-north-korea-soldiers-killed-ukraine-fighting"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:15:25","slug":"kim-jong-un-pays-rare-public-tribute-to-north-korean-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72703","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un pays rare public tribute to North Korean soldiers killed in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of leader with soldiers\u2019 coffins were displayed at a gala concert marking anniversary of military treaty with Russia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> has paid tribute to North Korean soldiers killed during Russia\u2019s war with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>, resting his hands on their repatriated coffins in a rare public acknowledgment that his armed forces have suffered fatalities in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of the North Korean leader pausing in front of a line of half a dozen coffins draped in the country\u2019s flag were displayed on a screen at a gala performance held on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of a military treaty between the North and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia\">Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/01\/kim-jong-un-tribute-north-korea-soldiers-killed-ukraine-fighting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of leader with soldiers\u2019 coffins were displayed at a gala concert marking anniversary of military treaty with RussiaKim Jong-un has paid tribute to North Korean soldiers killed during Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine, resting his hands on their re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[421,40,419,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703\/revisions\/72704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}