North Korea confirms that Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin will hold a summit

The state media North Koreans reported today that the leader Kim Jong-un visit Russia “soon” and that he will hold a summit with the president Vladimir Putin.

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“Kim Jong-un will meet and hold talks with Comrade Putin during visit”, the state news agency KCNA briefly reported without specifying more details about the meeting, which according to the New York Times last week would have, among other objectives, agree on a potential supply of North Korean ammunition that Moscow could use in Ukraine.

The announcement of KCNA comes shortly after South Korean intelligence indicated that the armored train by Kim had left since Pyongyang heading towards the border with Russia and that he Kremlin will confirm that Kim He will soon arrive in the neighboring country on an official visit invited by Putin.

Putin went this morning to Vladivostokthe capital of the Russian Far East and the likely venue for talks with Kim.

The spokesperson of Kremlin, Dmitri Peskovruled out meetings of that kind during the Eastern Economic Forum which hosts the Russian city, so the meeting should take place when the event ends on Wednesday.

In turn, the South Korean agency Yonhap reported that, a few hours after the departure of Kim’s train from Pyongyang was announced, a large security detail has begun to be deployed at the railway station in Vladivostok.

The time at which Kim could reach this city, which is located about 700 kilometers from Pyongyang.

The last time Kim went to that same city to meet with PutinIn April 2019, he also traveled on his special armored train, which took around 20 hours to reach the Russian coastal town.

If officially confirmed, this would be the first trip of Kim abroad since then, since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic led the regime to close its borders firmly at the beginning of 2020 and just this summer the hermetic Asian country has once again allowed, under strict protocols, the entry of people from abroad.

Following the failure of disarmament negotiations with USA In 2019, North Korea has exhibited increasing rapprochement with China and Russia which seems to be strengthening even more in recent months within the framework of the growing polarization to which the war in Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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