North Korea released a statement of support for Russia on Tuesday, acknowledging the country’s celebration of Victory Day.
In the message, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un praised the Russian people for achieving “a great victory in the great war of justice to crush the fascism that has threatened the fate of mankind by showing unparalleled heroism and self-sacrifice,” according to the Korean Central News agency, state media.
Victory Day marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender at the end of World War II.
According to the KCNA dispatch, Kim took the opportunity to “once again extend warm militant greetings to the president, military and people of Russia who have courageously stood up in the sacred struggle to bring about international justice and defend global peace.” against the practical arrogance and arbitrariness of the imperialists” in the Second World War.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 7th Expanded Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea. (KCNA via REUTERS)
Victory Day is celebrated on May 8 by European countries. However, the 1945 communiqué announcing the surrender arrived after midnight in the then USSR, and the holiday has been celebrated on 9 May ever since.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday commemorated his country’s Victory Day by defending Russia underway invasion of Ukraine.
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Russian soldiers march to Red Square to participate in a dress rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on Sunday, May 7, 2023. The parade in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 marks 78 years of the victory in World War II. (AP Photo)
In a lengthy tweet on Monday, Medvedev, also a deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, he claimed that Russia would defeat “Bandera’s horrible neo-Nazism” in Ukraine, as Russia once helped defeat Nazism in Germany.
“Unfortunately, today’s Europe and its squalid leaders have very short memories. But we will always remember the heroes of World War II. Our country eradicated fascism in 1945,” wrote Medvedev. “Do not doubt: in today’s Europe, we will crush the horrible neo-Nazism of Bandera, so loved by the heirs of the Third Reich in the EU.”
After the invasion of Ukraine, Putin drew similar comparisons between the Ukrainian administration and Nazi rule in Germany in the 1940s.
Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missiles roll towards Red Square to participate in a dress rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow. The parade on Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 celebrates 78 years of victory in World War II. (AP Photo)
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Kim attempted to maintain a strategic friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin as both countries take on international sanctions from NATO and the United Nations.
Lawrence Richard of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
