The Kremlin sent Moscow’s top intelligence official to Pyongyang!

report Mehr News Agency, according to North Korea’s state news agency, Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, left for Pyongyang on a two-day trip and met with Ri Chang-dae, North Korea’s national security minister.

According to the North Korean media, this trip took place from March 25 to 27, and Naryshkin gave a report on the international situation and the situation in the region in an interview with Ri Changdae. Received a similar report.

In another part of the KCNA report, it is stated that the parties in this meeting extensively discussed practical issues in order to strengthen mutual cooperation with the aim of countering espionage activities and ever-increasing intrigues. The warring powers discussed and exchanged opinions. This meeting took place on the sidelines of the meeting of the senior intelligence officials of the two countries and in a “friendly and cordial” atmosphere.

Naryshkin is one of the close allies of Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and he previously worked as the head of the Kremlin office, and later became the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, and since 2016 Manages Moscow’s foreign security service.

According to Newsweek, which published this news, the foreign trips of senior intelligence officials of countries are generally not published with the real time of the trip unless there are specific purposes behind the publication of such news. to exist.

Strategic relations between Moscow and Pyongyang go right back to the first days of the Cold War; When the former Soviet Union became the first country to officially recognize the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948, and continued to support Pyongyang militarily during the Korean War. Also, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, relations between Russia and North Korea have increased, and this issue has caused the concern of the West, especially the United States.