A North Korean group just boarded a train for Russia in anticipation for Mr. Kim’s visit later this month. According to reports, Russia is actively exploring new weapons for its Ukraine conflict. The US and its allies have announced a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin this month.
Mr. Kim also wants food aid for North Korea. Officials say the two presidents will attend the Eastern Economic Forum at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia, from September 10-13. According to reports, Mr. Kim will visit Pier 33’s Russian Pacific fleet. North Korea celebrates its founding on September 9.
On Wednesday, the White House warned that Putin and Kim had drafted letters discussing an arms sale using unclassified material. White House spokesman John F. Kirby said top military officers from both nations were “actively advancing.” Because both presidents are US foes.
Mr. Kim would leave Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, for Vladivo stok, Russia’s Pacific Coast, via armored train to meet Mr. Putin, sources say. Putin reportedly asked Kim to deliver Russia artillery shells and antitank missiles in exchange for advanced satellite and nuclear submarine technologies.
U.S. authorities won’t expose their personal contacts. The new meeting specifics are worse than the earlier warning. The intelligence at question has not been reduced or declassified by the US, and those describing it have no official permission. They wouldn’t say how the spy agencies got the data.
The U.S. released declassified intelligence after Russia invaded Ukraine to prevent North Korea, China, and others from arming Russia. Officials believe White House concerns about North Korean artillery shell exports ended Pyongyang-Moscow cooperation.
North Korea was serious about a Kim visit when 20 officials, including some who oversee leadership security standards, traveled by train from Pyongyang to Vladivostok and then flew to Moscow in late August. Intelligence officials reported a 10-day planning tour.
After National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US was ready for “leader-level diplomatic engagement” with Russia and the DPRK over military supply, White House officials stayed silent. She stated after the article’s publication, “We urge the D.P.R.K. to cease its arms negotiations with Russia and abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia.”
After Vladivostok, Mr. Kim may visit Vostochny Cosmodrome, where Putin met Ukraine war collaborator Alexander Lukashenko in April 2022. The center, 950 miles north of Vladivostok, fired its first rocket in 2016. The official advised Kim to visit Moscow.
Officials claimed In July, Russian military minister Sergei K. Shoigu visited North Korea to commemorate Mr. Kim’s 70th anniversary of the Korean War “victory” over South Korea and the US. Although the two Koreas are at war, a stalemate and armistice ended the three-year conflict in 1953. Kim took Shoigu to an UN-banned ballistic missile demonstration.
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