ANKARA: North Korean leader Kim Jung Un praised the Russian aircraft manufacturing industry and said he was impressed by its fighter jets, Anadolu Agency (AA) quoted the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as saying Saturday.
Kim visited the Yuri Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Friday after he arrived in the major industrial city in the Far Eastern Region of Russia."Deeply impressed by the rich independent potential and modernity of the Russian aircraft manufacturing industry and its ceaseless enterprising efforts toward new goals," the agency quoted Kim during his visit. Kim met test pilots aboard a Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jet and watched a test flight, it said.
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