Top North Korean military brass slammed the U.S. for attempting to derail Russia’s “sacred” fight in Ukraine at an “anti-fascist” forum in Moscow on Wednesday, praising DPRK soldiers’ success in repelling Kyiv’s forces from Kursk as a victory over “pure evil.”

The comments, in line with the Kremlin’s efforts to frame Kyiv and its Jewish leader Volodymyr Zelensky as a “neo-nazi” regime, come as the allies continue to promote North Korean troops’ contribution to the Russian war effort after recently acknowledging their deployment for the first time.

North Korea army units “selflessly defended” Russian territory as if it was their