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North Korean military school delegation departs for Russia, set to visit Military Academy

Pyongyang/Moscow, July 1 (UNI) A delegation from a major North Korean military school has departed for Russia, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Led by Kim Il Sung Military University chief Kim Kum Chol, the delegation is set to visit Russia’s Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the KCNA announced in a brief two-line report today, reports NK News.

This marks Kim’s first known visit to Moscow since last July, when Russian Telegram channels reported that he had drowned in a lake near Moscow.

Russian law enforcers and medical authorities confirmed to NK News at the time that the deceased was a man named Kim Kum Chol, who was the same age as the military official.

But the KCNA’s report appears to confirm that the North Korean University president did not drown and that it was a coincidence that the man who died in Moscow shared his name.

The military delegation’s visit comes following the visit of a Russian delegation to the DPRK, led by Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova, to promote cultural exchanges between Pyongyang and Moscow.

Russia and the DPRK have significantly intensified bilateral exchanges since the latter half of 2023 when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Russia. In June 2024, the two countries signed an agreement on comprehensive strategic partnership.

With Russia providing North Korea with technical expertise on military infrastructure and IT services and the DPRK giving Russia weapons and manpower, Kim Jong Un recently ordered the dispatch of 6,000 military engineers and construction workers to Russia’s Kursk region, in addition to nearly 12,000 soldiers already deployed there since October, with South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency expecting their arrival around July or August.
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