{"id":73569,"date":"2025-08-22T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/22\/kim-jong-un-welcome-north-korea-troops-fighting-ukraine"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:44:24","slug":"kim-jong-un-hails-north-korean-troops-fighting-against-ukraine-at-ceremony-for-returned-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73569","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un hails North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine at ceremony for returned soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers who had returned from Russia were honoured with a concert and relatives of troops killed in action were among those to attend a banquet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> has hailed North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> as \u201cheroes\u201d, at a ceremony to honour soldiers who recently returned from the conflict, state media said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader said in a speech this week that his troops had displayed \u201cfighting spirit of the heroes\u201d during their operation to retake Russia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/14\/ukraine-kursk-retreat-russia-incursion-peace-negotiations\">Kursk region<\/a> from Ukrainian forces \u2013 which had established a foothold there last year \u2013 the state news agency KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/22\/kim-jong-un-welcome-north-korea-troops-fighting-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers who had returned from Russia were honoured with a concert and relatives of troops killed in action were among those to attend a banquetKim Jong-un has hailed North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in the war in Ukraine as \u201cheroes\u201d, at a&#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":[421,40,419,930,818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73569","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=73569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73569\/revisions\/73570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}