{"id":17743,"date":"2023-09-13T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=17743"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T11:05:00","slug":"north-koreas-kim-jong-un-meets-putin-on-his-trip-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-meets-putin-on-his-trip-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un meets Putin on his trip to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Korea\u2019s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un entered Russia aboard his armored private train on September 10, 2023. Kim traveled across Russian cities to meet President Vladimir Putin for a rare in-person encounter for the first time since 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the KCNA report, Kim Jong Un departed on a visit to Russia on an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The bilateral meeting between Putin and Kim took place after the Eastern Economic Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s Natural Resources and Environment Minister Alexander Kozlov was the first Russian official to meet and welcome the North Korean leader as he made a stop at the Khasan station in Russia\u2019s far-eastern Primorye Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the welcoming ceremony, Kim said he was “pleased to visit Russia again” four years after his visit in 2019, adding that the trip was his “first foreign visit after the worldwide public health crisis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to KCNA, the goal of the North Korean leader\u2019s visit to Russia is to “take the friendly relations to new heights.” Kim thanked the Russian side for a warm welcome and conveyed his best wishes to Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meeting with Russia’s Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako at the DPRK-Russia border station of Khasan. (Image Credit: Twitter\/@nknewsorg)<\/sup><\/em>

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Kim-Putin meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting between the two leaders took place on September 13, at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia\u2019s central spaceport in the far-east region. They shook hands before the four-hour-long bilateral meeting. Putin welcomed Kim as he said that he was \u201cvery glad to see\u201d him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The talks between the leaders of the two heavily sanctioned regimes focused on strengthening bilateral relations as Moscow and Pyongyang are continuing their standoff against Western powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summit offered a chance for Putin to strike a deal with the North Korean leader for much-needed weapons to support Moscow\u2019s war against Ukraine. Meanwhile, Kim is seeking economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there were no plans to sign documents, according to Russian state media. \u201cThe full range of relations implies dialogue and interaction in sensitive areas, such as military interaction, the exchange of views on the most pressing issues in the field of security,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Space cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The venue of the meeting is Russia\u2019s most prominent spaceport, signaling a possible space deal between Russia and North Korea. Pyongyang has already tried and failed to send its much-anticipated spy satellite into space twice in the last few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the meeting, Putin was asked whether Russia would help North Korea launch its satellite and rocket, to which he replied, “That’s exactly why we came here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The leader of North Korea shows great interest in space, in rocketry, and they are trying to develop space. We’ll show our new objects,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


North Korea\u2019s missile launch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours before the meeting, the Defense Ministry of Japan reported North Korea launched two missiles, presumed to be ballistic ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Korea fires a missile during a live-fire exercise in response to North Korea\u2019s nuclear test. (Image Credit: Twitter\/GVS)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The missiles covered a distance of 350 kilometers and 650 kilometers, respectively, and fell outside Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff also detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired 10 minutes apart from each other from the Sunan area near Pyongyang\u2019s international airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


US threatens more sanctions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting between Kim and Putin is being closely watched by the U.S. and its allies. the United States has threatened to \u201caggressively\u201d enforce existing sanctions and add new ones if Pyongyang provides weapons to Moscow for its war in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said \u201cI will remind both countries that any transfer of arms from North Korea to Russia would be in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe, of course, have aggressively enforced our sanctions against entities that fund Russia\u2019s war effort, and we will continue to enforce those sanctions and will not hesitate to impose new sanctions if appropriate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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