North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui pledged to assist Russia in its war against Ukraine “right up to the day of victory” during talks with her counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Friday. “Once again, we promise that we will always stand firmly by the side of our Russian comrades right up to the day of victory,” Choe said at the meeting according to the Russian translation of her remarks. Lavrov referred to close cooperation between the two countries’ militaries and security services amid reports of the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops in Russia close to the border with …