North Korea’s state media released footage of Kim Jong Un paying tribute to the flag-draped coffins of soldiers who were killed fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine. The video of the North Korean leader was played at a Pyongyang gala performance on Sunday,

Diminutive North Korean leader Kim Jong un was shown throwing himself on a coffin of a soldier who was killed fighting for Russia in a bizarre patriotic TV show on state media Monday. The program showed North Korean and Russian officials weeping as they viewed footage of Kim kneeling over a flag-draped casket of one of the hundreds of Koreans he had sent into Moscow’s meat grinder in Ukraine.