Overview

• The Victory Museum opened its "Shoulder to Shoulder" exhibition highlighting North Korean soldiers’ participation in fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, featuring paintings, archival materials and wartime artifacts.
• Curators say the show includes about 150 authentic items and more than 100 digitized photo-documents, along with personal effects attributed to fallen DPRK fighters such as flags, blood-stained letters and named dog tags.
• A separate exhibition at the All‑Russian Museum of Decorative Arts presents pro‑DPRK canvases that glorify deployments to support Russia in Ukraine and opens with a joint photo of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
• The public presentations follow Russia’s April acknowledgment that North Korean units took part in combat in the Kursk region after the Kremlin had previously dismissed such reports as fake.
• South Korea’s intelligence estimates about 2,000 North Korean troops have been killed in the war, and Pyongyang in August displayed a wall honoring 101 fighters tied to battles in the Kursk area.