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.

Un was left teary-eyed at an event in Pyongyang after he honoured the soldiers killed fighting for Russia. Images released by the North Korean media showed leader Kim Jong-un mourning over flag-draped coffins of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.