Kim Jong-un highlighted Pyongyang’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine by showing his people, for the first time, images of North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops.

Diminutive North Korean leader Kim Jong un was shown throwing himself on a coffin of a soldier who was killed fighting for Russia in a bizarre patriotic TV show on state media Monday. The program showed North Korean and Russian officials weeping as they viewed footage of Kim kneeling over a flag-draped casket of one of the hundreds of Koreans he had sent into Moscow’s meat grinder in Ukraine.