In a further strengthening of ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, North Korean students will be forced to study Russian at school - with a North Korean Russian language centre on the cards North Korean students will be forced to learn their Russian ABCs (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

The chummy relationship between despots Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin appears to have grown stronger, after the tubby North Korean dictator introduced compulsory Russian classes from Year 4 onwards.

Russian minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Alexander Kozlov, who is also the co-chair of the intergovernmental commission of the Russian Federation and North Korea, estimated that around 600 people in North Korea study Russian, making the language one of the three most popular foreign languag

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