The Kremlin also confirmed Monday that Kim would visit Russia 'in the coming days'.
North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un would visit Russia and meet President Vladimir Putin, with the reclusive leader’s armoured train reportedly on its way to the border.
The announcement ends days of speculation after US and other officials told The New York Times at the weekend that Kim, who rarely leaves North Korea, was likely to head by armoured train to Vladivostok for arms talks with Putin.Kim has not travelled outside North Korea since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Moscow, a historical ally of Pyongyang, was a crucial backer of the isolated country for decades and their ties go back to the founding of North Korea 75 years ago. Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Kookmin University in Seoul, told AFP that a Putin-Kim summit was part of “gentle diplomatic blackmail” by Moscow of Seoul because Russia did not want South Korea to supply weapons to Kyiv.Seoul is a major arms exporter and has sold tanks to Kyiv’s ally Poland, but longstanding domestic policy bars it from selling weapons into active conflicts.
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