North Korea has recognised two Russian-backed breakaway 'People's Republics' in eastern Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
Russian president Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that the two countries will "expand the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations with common efforts," according to Pyongyang.
In a letter to Mr Kim for Korea's liberation day, Mr Putin said closer ties would be in both countries' interests, and would help strengthen the security and stability of both the Korean peninsula and the North-eastern Asian region, North Korea's state news agency said. Mr Kim also sent a letter to Mr Putin saying Russian-North Korean friendship had been forged in World War II with victory over Japan, which had occupied the Korean peninsula.
The "strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity" between the two countries has since reached a new level is their common efforts to frustrate threats and provocations from hostile military forces, Mr Kim said in the letter. The state news agency did not identify the hostile forces, but it has typically used that term to refer to the United States and its allies.
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