North Korea’s high diplomat meets with Putin on a go to to Russia

MOSCOW — North Korea’s high diplomat visited the Kremlin on Monday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which adopted final month’s assembly between the nations’ leaders.

Putin and Kim Jong Un met in Beijing in September after attending a main army parade within the coronary heart of the Chinese language capital that marked the eightieth anniversary of the top of World Battle II.

Putin requested North Korean Overseas Minister Chon Son Hui on Monday to convey his finest needs to Kim, noting that they’d a really heat assembly, based on his televised remarks in the beginning of the talks.

Earlier than attending the Kremlin assembly with Putin, Choe held talks with Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov, who once more hailed North Korean troops for combating alongside the Russian army within the Kursk area after a shock Ukrainian incursion.

“These heroic deeds will, in fact, additional strengthen the bonds of friendship and historic unity in our shared wrestle for justice,” Lavrov mentioned.

Choe famous a “appreciable progress” in relations between the 2 nations and burdened Pyongyang’s “unwavering” assist for “the Russian management’s coverage aimed toward defending state sovereignty, territorial integrity and worldwide justice.”

In response to South Korean assessments, North Korea has despatched round 15,000 troops to Russia since final fall and likewise provided massive portions of army tools, together with artillery and ballistic missiles to assist Moscow’s army motion in Ukraine. Kim has additionally agreed to ship hundreds of army development staff and deminers to Russia’s Kursk area.