Russian President Vladimir V. Putin may meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday for a meeting, according to the Kremlin and the state media in North Korea. As the two countries strengthen their military ties in order to help Mr. Putin’s war against Ukraine using North Korean arms, it will be their next meeting in nine months.
In 2000, Mr. Putin became the first Russian or Russian head to travel to North Korea. He was the last one to do so. The journey highlights Mr. Putin’s growing proper value for North Korea, particularly its ability to provide desperately needed conventional arms for the Ukrainian conflict.
For Mr. Kim, it was a rare moment of his state, a leper in the West, being sought after as an ally.
Vladimir Putin did make a pleasant state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 18 and 19, according to the Kremlin.
Days before Mr. Putin’s arrival in Pyongyang, the North Korean money, the Kremlin vowed to foster cooperation with North Korea “in all places”. When the two leaders met in the Russian Far East in September, the two nations ‘ new relationship relationship became clear.
Moscow and Pyongyang were friends during the Cold War, and their ties between them cooled after the Soviet Union’s collapse. They have since gotten closer as a result of their conflicts toward the United States, Russia because of its nuclear weapons program and North Korea because of its conflict with Russia.
The article Putin visits North Korea as the Ukraine War drags on second appeared in the New York Times.
