North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be heading to Russia on Monday for a meeting with Vladimir Putin. The information is provided by Reuters, which quotes a South Korean television channel.
According to information from an unknown government source, YTN news channel reports that North Korea’s leader will travel in an armored train to meet the Russian president in Vladivostok, a city on Russia’s east coast, where the Forum is taking place. Eastern economic.
If the trip to Russia is confirmed, it will be Kim Jong Un’s first trip abroad in four years. The last trip that the North Korean leader made, Reuters recalls, took place in 2019, precisely to Vladivostok, where he was with Putin after negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear disarmament with former US President Donald Trump failed .
Recall that the New York Times had already announced that Kim Jong-un would meet Putin in Russia in September, but the Kremlin refused to confirm the meeting this weekend.
One of the central themes will be the supply of weapons from Pyongyang to Moscow for use in the war in Ukraine.
According to the American newspaper, “Putin wants Kim to agree to send anti-tank missiles and artillery batteries. And Kim would like Russia to supply North Korea with high-end technology for satellites and nuclear submarines.”
The New York Times also wrote that the North Korean leader “is also seeking food aid for his impoverished country.”
Source: DN
