Kim Jong Un vows to continue support for Russia
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MOSCOW, April 26 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has arrived in North Korea, Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday, the second senior Russian official to visit Pyongyang in recent days.
Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday that it was a “great honor” to take part in an inauguration ceremony of a military memorial in Pyongyang.
Russia and North Korea have celebrated the completion of a major new road bridge linking the two nations, with the controversial crossing expected to open as early as June. The project – spanning the Tumen River on the remote Far Eastern border – marks the first-ever direct road connection between Russia and the secretive state often dubbed the “world’s most dangerous country”.