North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia’s defense Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday who was on a rare visit to the isolated country during which both sides pledged to boost ties, state media KCNA reported. | Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu, July 26, 2023 in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via REUTERS
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia’s defense Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday who was on a rare visit to the isolated country during which both sides pledged to boost ties, state media KCNA reported. Shoigu handed Kim a letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the report said. Kim in turn thanked Putin for sending a military delegation led by Shoigu, adding the meeting deepened the “strategic and traditional DPRK -Russia relations.”The Russian delegation and a Chinese delegation including Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Li Hongzhongas arrived in North Korea this week for the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War celebrated in North Korea as “Victory Day.
The groups are the first such prominent public visitors to North Korea since the start of the pandemic.
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