Putin receives Kim at the Vostochny cosmodrome for their second summit

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putinreceived today the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, at the Vostochni cosmodrome, in the Siberian region of Amur, where they will hold a summit, the second since 2019, which predictably includes an agreement on the supply of weapons and military technology on the agenda. Kim arrived by train at the cosmodrome station after crossing the Russian border the day before, after which he was taken in a black limousine to the rocket installation and testing building of the cosmodrome, where Putin was waiting for him.

Both leaders smiled and shook hands and Putin asked Kim how the trip was, which took the North Korean leader more than two days.

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The North Korean leader in turn thanked him for the invitation.

According to the Interfax agency, at the cosmodrome Vostochni The delegations of both countries will hold “several hours” of negotiations, and Putin and Kim will also hold a face-to-face meeting of about three hours.

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According to the same source, Putin is expected to show his counterpart the assembly of the Angara rocket before the meeting and that they jointly inspect the launch complexes of the Angará and the Soyuz-2 rocket.

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Kim Jong-un He is not the first foreign leader to be shown the cosmodrome, since the president of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, visited it on several occasions, and the leader of the Burmese military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, has also traveled to Vostochny.

Until now It is known that the Russian president will organize a lunch in honor of the North Korean leader and that there will not be a press conference at the end of the negotiations.

The agenda will include bilateral relations and cooperation, commercial and economic ties, cultural exchanges, international and regional affairs, and “sensitive issues” that will not be disclosed to the public.according to the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov.

This latest mention by Putin’s press secretary is interpreted as confirmation that the two leaders will discuss an arms supply agreement by North Korea to Russiaimmersed for 567 days in the war it launched in Ukraine.

According to The New York Times, Putin wants North Korea to sell artillery ammunition and anti-tank missiles to Russiawhile Pyongyang would be seeking advanced technology for the manufacture of satellites and nuclear-powered submarines, in addition to oil production and food aid.

Kim traveled to Russia with a delegation that includes the defense and foreign ministers, as well as senior military officials, including the director of the Industrial Department of Munitions, and also the secretary for Science and Education of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party, which is linked to the North Korean space program.

Coinciding with the imminent summit between both leaders, the South Korean Army reported that North Korea today launched an unidentified ballistic missile into the Sea of ​​Japan (called the East Sea in both Koreas).

The international community, from the United States to Asia, and Ukraine are closely monitoring the development of the summit.

The United States has reminded both countries “that any arms transfer from North Korea to Russia would violate multiple UN Security Council resolutions.”

“We will not hesitate to impose new sanctions if appropriate,” both the White House and the State Department stressed.

“For us, the interests of our two countries are important and not the warnings from Washington,” Peskov replied the day before.

The South Korean Presidency in turn urged Russia to “act responsibly” as a member of the Security Council, since North Korea is under United Nations sanctions.

Source: Elcomercio

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