For their first meeting in years in the Russian Far East, President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un obviously chose the new Russian spaceport of Vostochny as their meeting point.
After the head of the Kremlin, the ruler of Pyongyang also arrived at the railway station today in his special heavily armored train, as reported by the Russian state news agency Tass. Political talks were planned for the day, it was said.
Gun conversations are possible
It is assumed that Putin and Kim will talk about arms deals. Russia urgently needs ammunition for its war of aggression against Ukraine. North Korea, for its part, likely expects Russian technology to build satellites and nuclear submarines, for example.
For Kim, who has already emphasized the “strategic importance of relations” between the two countries, this is his second visit to Russia after a meeting with Putin in Vladivostok in April 2019.