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“Justice is sure to win and the Russian people will continue to add glory to the history of victory,” Kim said in the message published by KCNA. Kim called for “closer strategic cooperation” with Moscow, “holding hands firmly with the Russian president, in conformity with the common desire of the peoples of the two countries to fulfil the grand goal of building a powerful country,” it added. North Korea has sought to forge closer ties with the Kremlin and backed Moscow after it invaded Ukraine last year, blaming the “hegemonic policy“ and “high-handedness” of the United States and the West.

Read more Russia appears to have turned to Kim, In March, the US said Moscow was sending a delegation to North Korea to offer food – amid reports of “As part of this proposed deal, Putin has responded to Kim’s overtures by in turn calling for closer ties. In an exchange of letters last August to mark liberation day – when the Koreas were liberated from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 – Putin said Russia and North Korea would “continue to expand the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations” to strengthen the security and stability of the Korean peninsula and north-east Asia. In July 2022, North Korea recognised two Russian-backed breakaway “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine as independent states, with officials raising the prospect of

South Korea’s spy agency says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be suffering from a sleep disorder and they’re monitoring him for a potentially worsening alcohol and nicotine dependency. North Korean authorities are “intensely” collecting overseas medical information for top ranking officials with insomnia, including details on medications used to treat it like Zolpidem, the National Intelligence Service told lawmakers Wednesday.

• Rumors have swirled around North Korean leader Kim Jong Un since he took power in 2011. • Long absences from public view have prompted speculation about his health and who would succeed him. • Political moves in North Korea suggests preparation for such a change, but experts said who comes next is unknowable. Few world leaders are as closely watched and as shrouded in mystery as Kim Jong Un. Political and diplomatic intrigue has surrounded the dictator, believed to be in his late 30s, since he took power in 2011. There have been frequent rumors that he is in poor health. His condition and daily whereabouts are so opaque that when he went unseen for several weeks in 2020 While Kim has proven the rumors wrong so far, developments in the past year suggest that behind closed doors, North Korea may be preparing for a day when Kim Jong Un is really gone. Rule without rules Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un. AP; Getty; KCNA via Reuters There are currently no known rules for succession within the hierarchy of North Korea's ruling party, the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). As a result, analysts can only base predictions about who comes after Kim on previous transfers of power. The lack of succession protocols is not necessarily by design. North Korea has only had three leaders in its 73-year history. Its first leader, Kim Il Sung, designated his son, Kim Jong Il, as his successor in 1980, 14 years before his death in 1994. Kim Jong Il actively avoided designating a success...