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Kim visited a memorial honouring the soldiers of the Korean revolutionary soldiers who fought in resistance to Japan to end the 1910-1945 colonial rule and the Liberation Tower where Soviet Red Army soldiers are remembered, KCNA said.
North Korea’s state founder Kim Il Sung, who is the current leader’s grandfather, was backed by Soviet Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin who declared war against Japan near the end of World War Two.
The Soviets backed Kim’s communist forces that eventually established North Korea after Korea’s liberation in 1948.
North Korean state media made no mention of a blueprint for unification announced by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday, calling for dialogue with Pyongyang and proposing an international conference on North Korea’s human rights.
Coming at one of the lowest points in the two Koreas’ ties, Yoon’s blueprint was accepted with scepticism among some experts, who doubt whether it is realistic to expect Pyongyang to see it as anything other than an existential threat to its regime.
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