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Minneapolis Shooting Latest, New Acting CDC Director, North Korean Leader to Beijing

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The father of the eight-year-old boy who has killed in the shooting at Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis has spoken publicly about his son. A top advisor to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been selected to serve as acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And, the leaders of North Korea, China and Russia will gather together for the first time at a Chinese military parade in Beijing next week.

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North Korea officially confirms troop deployment to fight with Russia against Ukraine

Maravi Post Reporter

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked North Korean troops for fighting Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, after Pyongyang officially confirmed its involvement in the war on Monday. 

Putin expressed gratitude to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and praised the “heroism, excellent training and dedication” of North Korean soldiers, who fought “shoulder to shoulder with Russian soldiers, defending our Motherland as their own”, he said in a statement from the Kremlin on Monday. 

North Korea’s acknowledgment of the troop deployment came just two days after Russia announced it had fully reclaimed the Kursk region, at the border with Ukraine.

Ukraine had seized territory in the Kursk area after a surprise incursion launched in August 2024. Ukrainian officials deny Russia’s claim that it has fully recaptured the region.

“The operation to liberate Kursk by repelling the adventurous invasion of Russia by Ukraine was successfully concluded”, Pyongyang said in a statement carried by state media. 

The troops “made an important contribution in annihilating and wiping out the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers by displaying mass heroism, unmatched bravery and self-sacrifice”, the statement read, reclaiming Russia’s baseless narrative, used as a justification for the invasion, that Ukraine needed to be “denazified.”

US, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence have said that North Korea dispatched between 10,000 and 12,000 soldiers in Ukraine last autumn. 

The deployment marked North Korea’s first participation in a major armed conflict since the end of the Korean War in 1953. 

Kim Jong Un decided to send troops to Russia under a mutual defence treaty signed with President Putin in June 2024, according to North Korean state media. 

The treaty requires both nations to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance if either is attacked. 

North Korea did not confirm how many soldiers it had sent to Russia or how many had died. In March, South Korea’s military assessed that around 4,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded in Russia’s war against Ukraine. 

Source: Africanews

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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un delegates power to younger sister ‘to ease stress’

Lloyd M’bwana
North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un and his younger sister, Kim Yo-jong

PYONGYANG-(MaraviPost)-North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un has reportedly delegated some of his power to younger sister, Kim Yo-jong ‘to ease stress’.

South Korea’s spy agency reports that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) of North Korea says Kim Jong Un will still “exert absolute power” but he will gradually transfer his authority to his younger sibling, Yna.co.kr reports.

The NIS said: “Although Chairman Kim still exerts absolute power, he has gradually transferred his authority compared to the past, and it is not the decision of the successor or the rule of the successor.”

It added that Pak Pong-ju, vice chairman of the State Affairs Commission, and the new premier Kim Tok-hun have taken over power in controlling the economic sector.

Kim is also expected to transfer other responsibilities to other aides including his younger brother Kim Yeo-Jeong who is the first vice president of the North Korean Labor Party.

In April, news went round that Kim was seriously ill with claims he had died or undergone major surgery when he mysteriously vanished from the public eye.

He also missed a key Day of the Sun event to celebrate his grandfather.

Reports from South Korea at the time of his absence suggested Kim – who is overweight and has a history of diet-related illness – underwent heart surgery on April 12 after collapsing while on a walk.

Source: Expressiveinfo