North Korea became the first country to support the results of "referendums" in the occupied territories of Ukraine. This is stated on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK:
"We show respect for the will of the residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, who sought to become part of Russia, and we support the position of the Russian government on accepting the above regions into its composition."
In North Korea, they believe that the vote was held according to the rules of the UN Charter, and the "referenda" became a reflection of the will of the inhabitants of the occupied territories.
At the end of September, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the accession to Russia of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and the so-called LPR and DPR. The annexation was preceded by a four-day "referendum" held by the Russian authorities. Earlier, constitutional lawyer Elena Lukyanova, in a conversation with The Insider, noted that by annexing the occupied regions of Ukraine, Putin even violated Russian law.