SEOUL, South Korea– Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit North Korea, Pyongyang's state media said Thursday, as Kim Jong Un wrapped up a rare trip to meet with his ally.
This picture taken on September 13, 2023 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 14 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un exchanging farewell greetings with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur region.
Among the results of the leaders' summit were Russian promises of help with North Korea's fledgling space programme, according to Russian news agencies, while Putin told reporters he saw"possibilities" for military cooperation. "Putin accepted the invitation with pleasure and reaffirmed his will to invariably carry forward the history and tradition of the Russia-DPRK friendship."
Kim then headed to his next destination, KCNA said, with Putin earlier saying Pyongyang's top leader would oversee a display in the far eastern city of Vladivostok of Russian warships to"demonstrate the capabilities of the Pacific Fleet".Western countries have repeatedly raised concerns of a possible arms agreement between Russia and North Korea, as Moscow's war in Ukraine grinds on.
"I think Russia has already tested the North Korean shells in battlefields and is now ready to expand its use going forward. And neither the US nor South Korea has come to grips with the implications of such an arms deal between Russia and the North," he said. He also said Moscow could help Pyongyang build satellites -- after the North failed twice recently to put a military spy satellite into orbit.
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