As for the hostile forces’ adventurous military moves of blatantly violating the sovereignty and security of Russia, our fraternal country, I promptly shared with Comrade President Putin my view of this as something tantamount to an invasion of our own state and my decision to discharge our treaty obligations with sincerity. Then I ordered the combat sub-units of our Republic’s armed forces to join in the Russian armed forces’ action to wipe out the neo-Nazi occupiers from Ukraine and liberate the Kursk area.
The most excellent sons of the Korean people, in answering the call of their homeland, fought shoulder to shoulder with the Russian soldiers in the same trenches, shedding blood amid the flames of battles against the common enemy, as they regarded the territory of our ally as that of their own country.
All these proud sons of our Korean people, who were involved in the Kursk operations, are heroes and supreme representatives of honour of this country, I think.
They proved the durability of the DPRK-Russia alliance at the cost of their blood, demonstrating the highest strategic level of the strong militant friendship, alliance and fraternal relations between the peoples of the two countries.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 