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Kim Names Youth Vanguard, Unveils Memorial for 6,000 Dead

5/3/2026

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Kim Jong Un met Youth League delegates at Eleventh Congress, framing it as a rallying point for troops in Russia’s Ukraine war.
He called youth the “vanguard” of state goals, urged discipline, and said a Workers' Party letter described deployed soldiers as “bombs and flames” defending the nation’s honour.
Officials estimate 14,000 troops were sent to Kursk and over 6,000 died.
Kim unveiled a Pyongyang memorial for the fallen soldiers.

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Kim Jong Un met Youth League delegates at Eleventh Congress, framing it as a rallying point for troops in Russia’s Ukraine war.
He called youth the “vanguard” of state goals, urged discipline, and said a Workers' Party letter described deployed soldiers as “bombs and flames” defending the nation’s honour.
Officials estimate 14,000 troops were sent to Kursk and over 6,000 died.
Kim unveiled a Pyongyang memorial for the fallen soldiers.