By YOSHIHIRO MAKINO/ Senior Staff Writer
May 6, 2022 at 07:00 JST
Couples to marry in North Korea are supposed to make visits to the bronze statues of its ex-leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, on the Mansudae hill in Pyongyang such as in this image taken in October 2014. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
North Korea, a nation long on the outs with most of the international community, has found in the Ukraine conflict a chance to breathe new life into its old, somewhat soured relationship with Russia. [Read More]
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