During Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to North Korea between July 11-13, 2025, Kremlin-affiliated accounts on X significantly amplified content emphasizing the strength of the Moscow-DPRK alliance, reaching the highest daily post volume about North Korea in 2025 on July 12. This “very high” level of information operation effort, with 229 posts detected from July 9-15, highlighted North Korea’s “unconditional support” for Russia’s military actions in Ukraine and portrayed the partnership as a stabilizing force for the Korean Peninsula. Analysts suggest Russia’s objectives are to demonstrate North Korean military bolster, publicly show Pyongyang is not isolated, and implicitly counter the US-South Korea alliance.
