Pyongyang: Putin wants to visit North Korea soon

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, North Korea’s state news agency reported on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a recent meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Cho Son Hui, expressed his desire He expressed his desire to visit Pyongyang in the near future.

Putin also thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for his invitation, KCNA news agency reported, quoting North Korea’s assistant foreign minister’s office. If carried out, the trip would be Putin’s first visit to North Korea in more than two decades.

Putin after handing over power from Boris Yeltsin In 1999, he traveled to North Korea in July 2000 to meet Kim Jong Il, father of Kim Jong Un.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Russia hopes that Putin’s visit to North Korea at the invitation of Kim will take place in the near future, but said that no date has yet been agreed upon. Is.

During Cho’s visit, Russia thanked North Korea for its support and solidarity with Moscow in its military operations in Ukraine.

According to Reuters, the two sides also expressed serious concern about the provocative actions of the United States and its allies against North Korea’s sovereign rights, and at the same time to cooperate in They agreed to deal with this situation.

Pskov previously said Putin accepted Kim’s invitation when they met during the North Korean leader’s visit to Russia in September.

The growing relations between the two countries has worried America and its allies in recent years; They claim that arms trade between the two countries is a violation of several UN Security Council resolutions.

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