{"id":124823,"date":"2025-02-04T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/124823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"north-korean-leader-congratulates-lukasenka-on-extending-his-rule","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/124823\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader congratulates \u0141uka\u0161enka on extending his rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 4, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> North Korean leader Kim Jong-un congratulated Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka on extending his 30-year-long rule in Belarus yesterday after the Belarusian Central Election Commission officially declared him the winner with 86.82 percent of the vote, KCNA<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea became the 25th<\/sup> state to congratulate \u0141uka\u0161enka on his seventh term in office after the January 21-26 election that took place in a purged political landscape amid a new crackdown on regime critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of them, including Azerbaijan, China, Cuba, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, issued their statements following the announcement of preliminary election results on January 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus\u2019 seventh presidential election drew severe criticism from democratic countries and the exiled Belarusian opposition for the lack of transparency and repressive environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty states, among them Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, have already dismissed it as a sham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus has not held a single free and fair election since 1996 by standards of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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