{"id":12805,"date":"2025-12-25T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/north-koreas-kim-visits-nuclear-subs-as-putin-hails-invincible-bond\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:54:03","slug":"north-koreas-kim-visits-nuclear-subs-as-putin-hails-invincible-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/north-koreas-kim-visits-nuclear-subs-as-putin-hails-invincible-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea’s Kim visits nuclear subs as Putin hails ‘invincible’ bond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a nuclear submarine factory and received a message from Russia’s Vladimir Putin hailing the countries’ “invincible friendship”, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday.<\/p>\n

North Korea and Russia have drawn closer since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, and Pyongyang has sent troops to fight for Russia.<\/p>\n

In return, Russia is sending North Korea financial aid, military technology and food and energy supplies, analysts say.<\/p>\n

The “heroic” efforts of North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region “clearly proved the invincible friendship” between Moscow and Pyongyang, Putin said in a message to Kim, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).<\/p>\n

Their work demonstrated the nations’ “militant fraternity”, Putin said in the message received by Pyongyang last week.<\/p>\n

The provisions of the “historic treaty” the two leaders signed last year, which includes a mutual defense clause, had been fulfilled “thanks to our joint efforts”, Putin wrote.<\/p>\n

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South Korean and Western intelligence agencies have estimated that the North has sent thousands of soldiers to Russia, primarily to Kursk, along with artillery shells, missiles and long-range rocket systems.<\/p>\n

Around 2,000 troops have been killed and thousands more have been wounded, according to South Korean estimates.<\/p>\n

North Korea acknowledged this month that its troops in Kursk had been assigned to clear mines and that some had died on deployment.<\/p>\n

KCNA reported Putin’s letter on the same day that it published details of Kim’s undated recent visit to a manufacturing base for nuclear-powered submarines.<\/p>\n

There, the North Korean leader vowed to counter the “threat” of South Korea producing its own such vessels.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump has given the green light for South Korea to build “nuclear-powered attack submarines”, though key details of the project remain uncertain.<\/p>\n

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Photos published by KCNA showed Kim walking alongside a purportedly 8,700-ton submarine at an indoor assembly site, surrounded by officials and his daughter Kim Ju Ae.<\/p>\n

In another image, Kim Jong Un smiles during an official briefing as Kim Ju Ae stands beside him.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang would view Seoul developing nuclear subs as “an offensive act severely violating its security and maritime sovereignty”, Kim Jong Un said, according to KCNA.<\/p>\n

It was therefore “indispensable” to “accelerate the radical development of the modernization and nuclear weaponization of the naval force”, he said.<\/p>\n

Kim clarified a naval reorganization plan and learned about research into “new underwater secret weapons”, KCNA said, without giving details.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang’s defense ministry said it would consider “countermeasures” against U.S. “nuclear muscle flexing”, a separate report said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Only a handful of countries have nuclear-powered submarines, and the United States considers its technology among the most sensitive and tightly guarded military secrets.<\/p>\n

In the North’s first comments on the U.S.-South Korea deal, a commentary piece by KCNA last month said the program was a “dangerous attempt at confrontation” that could lead to a “nuclear domino phenomenon”.<\/p>\n

Hong Min, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP the submarine photos raise “considerable speculation” over whether Russia helped North Korea assemble a nuclear-powered submarine “within such a short time frame”.<\/p>\n

Kim also reportedly oversaw the test launch on Wednesday of “new-type high-altitude long-range anti-air missiles” over the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n

The projectiles hit mock targets at an altitude of 200 kilometers, KCNA said. That height, if correct, would be in space.<\/p>\n

One photo showed a missile ascending into the sky in a trail of intense orange flame, while another showed Kim walking in front of what appeared to be a military vehicle equipped with a vertical missile launcher.<\/p>\n

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said they had been aware of the launch preparations and had braced for the firing in advance.<\/p>\n

“South Korean and US intelligence authorities are currently closely analyzing the specifications,” it said.<\/p>\n

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a nuclear submarine factory and received a message from Russia’s Vladimir Putin hailing the countries’ “invincible friendship”, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. North Korea and Russia have drawn closer since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, and Pyongyang has sent troops to fight…<\/p>\n

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