Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has lauded North Korea's military support for Russia's war against Ukraine and vowed to further deepen bilateral ties, Pyongyang's state media said Tuesday. Lavrov made the remarks in a letter to his North Korean counterpart, Choe Son-hui, marking the 81st anniversary of Korea's Aug. 15 liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). He recalled that Russia and North Korea fought together to defeat "Japanese militarism in 1945" and helped hasten the end of World War II, it said. Lavrov then praised North Korea's support for Russia's war against Ukraine, calling the North's troop deployment to the Kursk region clear proof of the "militant friendship forged by the heroic preceding generations," the KCNA reported. The letter described Moscow and Pyongyang as "now fighting on the same front" to build a new global order based on multipolarity and national sovereignty, and expressed confidence that the two countries would continue "boosting cooperation in a multifaceted way in the future." North Korean lea