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| ▲ This file photo, carried by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 14, 2023, shows the North's leader Kim Jong-un (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a summit at Russia's Vostochny spaceport the previous day. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap) |
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Putin to visit N. Korea on June 18-19: KCNA
SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on June 18-19, Pyongyang's state media reported Monday, amid deepening military cooperation with North Korea following his summit with the North's leader Kim Jong-un in September.
Putin will "pay a state visit" to North Korea at the invitation of the North's leader Kim, the Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch.
The visit is part of his tour that will also include a stop in Vietnam from Wednesday to Thursday.
It will mark Putin's first trip to the reclusive regime since July 2000, when he traveled to Pyongyang to meet former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the late father of the current leader.
Putin had accepted Kim's invitation to visit North Korea during the summit held at Russia's Vostochny spaceport in September, the Kremlin earlier said.
North Korea and Russia have been deepening military cooperation amid suspicions that Pyongyang has provided weapons and munitions to Moscow for use in Russia's war in Ukraine in return for Moscow's food aid and possible transfer of weapons technology.
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