Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un over devastating floods that caused untold casualties and damaged thousands of homes, the Kremlin said on Saturday. Kim thanked Putin for the outreach but said "already-established plans as state measures were taken at the present stage." Pyongyang said on Wednesday that officials who neglected their disaster prevention duties had caused unspecified casualties, without providing details on the location. North Korea and Russia have been allies since the North's founding after World War II and have drawn even closer since Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. North Korea is accused of breaching arms control measures by supplying weapons to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine.
