Russia’s Kursk region plans to boost tourism at sites where North Korean and Russian soldiers fought Ukrainian forces in the border area in 2024-2025, a move described by an expert as a bid to demonstrate Moscow’s permanent ties with Pyongyang.

New war-themed attractions will kickstart a “patriotic tourism” boom in the region for Russians and foreign travelers, Kursk Gov. Alexander Khinshtein said in a podcast released Thursday.

“I am confident that people will find it very interesting to come and see a command center from which troops were directed, or a command post where our comrades-in-arms from the Korean People’s