This is reported by "Voice of America" ​​with reference to the North Korean state agency CTAK.

In a letter to

on the occasion of Liberation Day, which is celebrated in North Korea, Putin indicated that closer relations are in the interests of both countries and will help strengthen security and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia, the agency said.

Kim Jong Un also sent a letter to Putin, in which he noted that Russian-North Korean friendship was established during the Second World War with the victory over Japan, which occupied the Korean Peninsula.

"Strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity between the two countries are rising to a new level" to eliminate threats and provocations from hostile military forces, Kim Jong-un's letter said.

The CSTO did not specify what is meant by enemy forces, but the term is usually used to refer to the US and its allies.

This year, North Korea has already conducted dozens of ballistic missile launches, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, and thereby violated the moratorium on testing, which it itself introduced in 2018 after Kim Jong-un first met with then US President

.

The UN and the IAEA fear that North Korea is now preparing to conduct its first nuclear weapons test since 2017.

US President

said in May that Washington is ready for any new tests of military equipment by North Korea.

At the same time, he did not rule out the possibility of a personal meeting with Kim Jong Un.

In July, North Korea recognized two separatist "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine as independent states, and officials raised the issue of sending North Korean workers to the areas to help with construction and other work.

Due to this move, Ukraine, which resists the Russian invasion, broke off relations with Pyongyang on July 13.