The meeting between the historic allies has sparked concerns over possible arms agreements.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia is his first official trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out.
Two days after meeting Putin at a spaceport, Kim’s bulletproof train pulled into Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia’s far east, where he was met with flowers, music, a dance group, and ceremonial loaves of bread, the Interfax agency said. TASS news agency reported Kim visited an aviation plant named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – the first person in space.When Kim’s train arrived in Russia on Tuesday – having left Pyongyang on Sunday – the North Korean leader was gifted a signed photo of Gagarin at the border.Afterward, Putin said on television that Kim “will visit factories where civilian and combat aviation equipment is produced” in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Kim will visit the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, as well as the Russian Academy of Sciences, including laboratories researching marine biology, Putin added.The Kremlin also confirmed that Putin, who has sought to strengthen alliances with other leaders ostracised by the West, had accepted Kim’s invitation to visit North Korea.
It would be Putin’s second trip to North Korea. He met Kim’s father Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang in July 2000, shortly after becoming president.
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