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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet Putin in Russia this month – New York Times

Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, left, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, ahead of the summit on Russky Island near Vladivostok, Russia, on 25 April 2019. (Photo: Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the possibility of supplying weapons for the war in Ukraine, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing US and allied sources.

Kim would travel from Pyongyang, probably by armoured train, to Vladivostok, on the Pacific Coast of Russia, where he would meet with Putin, the newspaper said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The planned trip would come as Russia discusses holding joint military exercises with North Korea and after Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had tried on a visit to North Korea to convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia.

The US has previously warned that North Korea could provide more weapons to Russia, whose forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a war that the United States and its European allies vehemently oppose and that Moscow calls a “special military operation”.

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on August 30 that the United States was concerned that arms negotiations between the two countries were advancing actively.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward and Kanishka Singh; Editing by Scott Malone and Sandra Maler.)

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  • It was just a matter of time before the evil got together. I wonder what Un wants in return?

  • Allrite Jack says:

    Its time the Maverick read up on the Ukraine Russia history. Martin Armstrong, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, & Scott Ritter are good sources, but there are many more, & MSM is certainly not one of them. The US CIA started the war in 2014 by overthrowing the duly elected President & intalling a US puppet. Victoria Nuland, the infamous regime change artist, known for her F– the EU, was instrumental in it. From then till 2022 the Ukraine Nazi Azov brigade murdered 14,000 civilians in the Donbass & Putin only intervened in 2022 with the SMO to save more lives & destroy the Nazis.

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