Kim will be bringing the items back to the “friendship” museum, where gifts received by the North’s three generations of leaders are kept.
Following are some of the items he is bringing back to the “friendship” museum, where gifts received by the North’s three generations of leaders are kept., Kim received a Russian-made rifle “of the highest quality,” according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Kim reciprocated with a rifle for Putin “made by North Korean craftsmen.
Kim received a fur hat from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Vladivostok, where he inspected Russian nuclear bombers, fighter jets equipped with hypersonic missiles and a warship. Kim began his visit with a stop in Russia’s border town of Khasan, where he was presented with a photo of Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who was the first human to orbit the Earth.
Opened in 1978, the museum comprises more than 100 showrooms with more than 115,000 items from more than 200 countries, according to the North’s state media.The scale and importance of the collection make it comparable to the Louvre in Paris, North Korea’s sate media have said.
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