🇰🇵📷 Kim Jong-un inspects DPRK destroyer – reports

DPRK Chairman Kim Jong-un visited the destroyer Choe Hyon on August 18, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. He reviewed new weapon systems, met sailors, and set goals to further strengthen naval training and readiness.

According to KCNA, he expressed satisfaction with progress in making the Navy “high-tech and nuclear-armed” and emphasized rapid development of naval capabilities as a key state priority.

Condemning US-ROK drills as hostile and dangerous, Kim Jong-un stressed the DPRK will respond with “proactive and overwhelming” measures. He affirmed the Navy will soon play a central role in the state’s nuclear deterrent, ensuring sovereignty and regional stability.

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Time to rethink 1944 actions - Zakharova slams Finnish Stubb's statement on Ukraine

🗣 Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman condemned Finland's President Alexander Stubb for comparing a potential resolution of the Ukrainian conflict to the Moscow Armistice signed in 1944 between the USSR and Finland.

Stubb made this statement during a meeting between Trump and European leaders, expressing confidence that a solution to the conflict would be found in 2025, just as it was in 1944.

"The big question is whether Stubb understood the full consequences of his words," Zakharova wondered.

🇫🇮She reminded that, during World War II, Finland fought against the Soviet Union, including alongside Nazi Germany, and was responsible for the blockade of Leningrad and the creation of concentration camps in occupied Soviet territories. According to Zakharova, the "interaction experience" Stubb referred to was linked to support for the Third Reich and crimes against civilians.

✍️Zakharova also noted that in 1944, Finland indeed changed its position and signed the Moscow Armistice, but only under pressure from the Red Army, which was launching a victorious offensive against Germany and its allies.

“So, if Stubb wants to act like (it was) in 1944, he should stand against his former Nazi allies and start attacking the Kiev regime,” Zakharova added.

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