Xinhua news agency, Pyongyang, May 6 (reporter Hong Kerun, Jiang Yaping) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea, with a commemorative medal for the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Russian Patriotic War, according to the DPRK China News Agency on the 6th.

The awarding ceremony of the commemorative medal was held on the 5th at the wanshoutai assembly hall, the report said. Russian ambassador to the DPRK Alexander mazegola was authorized to hand over to the DPRK Foreign Minister Li Shanquan the commemorative medal and certificate of "the 75th anniversary of the victory of the patriotic war between 1941 and 1945" granted by Putin to Kim Jong Un.