Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-unun on Saturday during a visit to North Korea, The Russian Ministry of Diplomacy announced. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the Telegram platform said that the North Korean leader “accepted” Lavrova. At the same time, the resort published a video that captures Lavrova and Kim as they shook hands and hugged.
Russian news agency TASS informed that Lavrov handed over to the North Korean leader from Kremlin’s chief Vladimir Putin. Before the meeting with Kim, Lavrov negotiated in Wonsan with the North Korean Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chche Son-Hui. At the subsequent press conference he said that The Russian President and Kim are in constant contact and that they will certainly meet again in the future.
According to AFP, this is the latest of the series of Russian high -ranking representatives to the DPRK. Moscow and Pyongyang are currently deepening military and political ties in connection with the war of Russia in Ukraine. A year ago, Putin and Kim signed an agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership.
Agreement in addition to the mutual provision of military aid in case of attacking one of the parties also includes Cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, universe research or energy security. The DPRK sent thousands of soldiers to Russia to help in his military campaign and provided the Russian army of rockets and artillery grenades, recalls the French news agency.
Lavrov on Saturday said that North Korean leaders “confirmed their full support for all goals of a special military operation”, He used the term to which Russia marks its invasion of Ukraine. At the same time he thanked the “heroic” North Korean soldiers, the Russian ministry said foreign affairs.
Pyongyang only in April this year confirmed that he sent soldiers to Russia to support his war against Ukraine. In recent weeks, the North Korean state media brought images of the ceremony of returning the remains of North Korean soldiers who fell in the fight against Ukrainian forces in Russia. At the reverent event was also leader Kim Jong-un, who in the shots put the national flag on one of the coffins.
North Korea has also visited the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Šojga several times this year. The one after the June meeting with Kim announced that The DPRK will send Ukrainian troops, 6,000 military construction workers and pyrotechnics for the restoration of the Russian Kursk region, where in August.
