Wonsan: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Russia, on Saturday, reaffirmed their will to develop bilateral ties into eternal strategic relations, and pledged to lend firm support to each other. DPRK Foreign Minister, Choe Son Hui, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, made the pledge during the second strategic dialogue in the DPRK's eastern coastal city of Wonsan, it was reported yesterday, citing a press statement issued a day earlier.

According to Nam News Network, during their strategic dialogue, the two foreign ministers discussed, in depth, the immediate practical issues arising in accelerating the dynamic development of the DPRK-Russia relations. The DPRK side expressed full sympathy and support for all the measures taken by the Russian government, to remove the root cause of the Ukrainian conflict and defend its national sovereignty, security interests, and territorial integrity, according to the statement.

Choe and Lavrov confirmed that the judgments of the two sides on the present complicated international situation are unanimous and they agreed to coordinate the common stand, while further heightening vigilance against the hostile forces' hegemony-oriented moves for aggression getting more undisguised worldwide, and boosting strategic communication.

On Saturday, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, met with the visiting Russian top diplomat, who came at the invitation of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.