North Korea recognizes breakaway of Russia's proxies in east Ukraine
The move makes North Korea only the third country after Russia and Syria to recognize the Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republics (LPR).
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ceremony to inaugurate the start of construction on the first phase of a project to eventually build 50,000 new apartments, in Pyongyang, North Korea(photo credit: KCNA/FILE PHOTO VIA REUTERS)ByREUTERSUpdated: