North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the construction site of the Museum of Combat Activities of abroad Military Operations, dedicated to soldiers active in the operation of the liberation of the Kursk Oblast in Russia.
In the spring of last year, North Korean troops, acting under the Treaty on the Comprehensive strategical Partnership of June 2024, helped Russian forces to repel the massive invasion of Ukraine into the region.
In April 2025, the Russian military informed of the complete displacement of Ukrainian forces, first recognizing the function of North Korean troops, without revealing their numbers.
In August, Kim announced plans to build a museum in Pyongyang to honor the soldiers who died in this operation.
Photos published on Friday by KCNA show Kim watching a large memorial complex in the monumental North Korean style, the center of which is the Memorial Wall.
The exterior of the museum is decorated with relief bronze sculptures depicting North Korean soldiers in modern combat uniforms.
Behind the museum is an organized cemetery with rows of concrete gravestones.
The construction seems to be close to completion.
During the inspection Kim called the builders to “they profoundly cherished deep feelings of respect” to the fallen and made the museum "a holy monument... eternally worshipped as a symbol of the deeds and immortality of fallen warriors."
He said “Unparalleled Courage and Mass Heroism” The soldiers must "to be recorded in past as the standard of invincibleness" – reports KCNA.
In late December, Kim told Russian president Vladimir Putin that bilateral ties had been strengthened thanks to “sharing of blood” on the Ukrainian Front, calling this relation "a valuable common good"to be retained ‘for future generations."
Putin thanked Pyongyang for his military aid in Kursk and said that ‘heroic entry’ North Korean troops and their bomb squads proved “Invincible friendship” between the 2 nations.
The Russian authorities praised the function of North Koreans in the Kursk operation and announced the construction in Moscow of a memorial to the dead.
Russia's late ambassador to North Korea Alexander Macegora said that monuments could besides be built in the Kursk region, and the streets would be named after the fallen.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/632483-kim-memorial-troops-kursk/
