{"id":75830,"date":"2026-01-01T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/01\/kim-jong-un-north-korea-invincible-alliance-russia"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:08:45","slug":"kim-jong-un-hails-north-koreas-invincible-alliance-with-russia-in-new-years-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75830","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un hails North Korea\u2019s \u2018invincible alliance\u2019 with Russia in New Year\u2019s message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim praised his men fighting in an \u2018alien land\u2019, congratulating their \u2018heroic\u2019 defence of the nation\u2019s honour and instructing them to \u2018be brave\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has praised his troops fighting abroad as forging an \u201cinvincible alliance\u201d with Russia in a new year\u2019s message, state media said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/24\/north-korea-building-memorial-to-soldiers-killed-ukraine-war\">sent thousands of troops<\/a> to support Russia\u2019s nearly four-year invasion of Ukraine, according to South Korean and western intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/01\/kim-jong-un-north-korea-invincible-alliance-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim praised his men fighting in an \u2018alien land\u2019, congratulating their \u2018heroic\u2019 defence of the nation\u2019s honour and instructing them to \u2018be brave\u2019The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has praised his troops fighting abroad as forging an \u201cinvincible allia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[40,419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea","category-russia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75830","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75830\/revisions\/75831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}