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The secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Serguéi Shoigú, arrived this Friday in North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong-un and other high-profile officials of the regime, according to the Russian state agency TASS, in another chapter of the growing approach between Moscow and Pionyang. The arrival of Shoigú joins a recent series of high -level contacts between both governments. In mid-March, the Russian Vice Chancellor, Andréi Rudenko, also visited Piongyang, where he discussed with his North Korean counterpart, Choe Son-Hui, the possibility of maintaining political encounters “at the highest level,” Tass reported at that time. South Korea does not rule out that Kim Jong-un trip to Russia, in reciprocity for the visit of President Vladimir Putin to North Korea in June last year, according to the national security advisor, Shin Won-Sik, to Yonhap news television, at the end of last year.