North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would “fully support” Russia’s army as a “fraternal duty,” and Russian President Vladimir Putin called the two countries’ ties “special,” state media KCNA reported on Thursday.

Kim and Putin held a meeting on Wednesday on the sidelines of China’s celebrations to mark the formal surrender of Japan in World War Two in Beijing.

The pair flanked Chinese President Xi Jinping at a massive military parade for the first such gathering of the three countries’ leaders since the early days of the Cold War. 5

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Kim’s Beijing trip offered his first-ever chance to meet Putin and Xi together, as well as mingle with the more than two dozen other national leaders who attended the events.

Analysts view his unprecedented gathering on Wednes

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