Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to North Korea on Tuesday for a 'friendly' visit, the Kremlin announced.
It will be Putin's second visit to the country in his time in power, after a trip 24 years ago, shortly after becoming president.
The visit to the world’s most reclusive state comes as Putin seeks ammunition to continue his military campaign launched in February 2022, which has thrown Moscow into unprecedented global isolation.It also comes nine months after Putin hosted North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on a rare foreign trip to the Russian Far East, where the pair lavished each other with praise.
Washington and Seoul say Russia has in return provided Pyongyang with technical help for its satellite program and sent aid to the food-strapped state.Putin has scaled down trips abroad since launching the Ukraine offensive, but has paid some high-profile visits to Moscow’s few key allies such as China.
Since the fall of the USSR, Russia was one of the few countries to have working relations with Pyongyang.It will be Putin’s second visit to the country in his time in power, after a trip 24 years ago, shortly after becoming president, to meet Kim Jung Un’s father Kim Jong Il.Now Russia finds itself under heavy international sanctions and the Kremlin leader is a persona non grata in most of the Western world, officially wanted by the International Criminal Court .
A string of Russian officials, including Moscow’s spy chief, have since visited North Korea in preparation for the visit.
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