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A meeting of dictators is coming up in East Asia. Meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are taking place in Pyongyang, North Korea. Both heads of state and government plan closer cooperation between their regimes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to visit his neighbor. According to North Korean news agency KCNA, the visit was negotiated by the two countries during North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui’s recent visit to Russia.
The exact date of the visit is not yet known. “We are coordinating President Putin’s visit to Pyongyang through diplomatic channels.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this, according to the TASS agency.
It will be Putin’s first visit to North Korea and his first trip abroad this year. Together with the dictator Kim Jong-un, he has long tried to improve relations between the two countries. For Russia, friendship with Korea is a source of ammunition that it can use in the protracted war in Ukrainewrites the ABC portal.
But tensions are also increasing in East Asia, where a new conflict threatens to break out. North Korea has stepped up its aggressive rhetoric toward its southern neighbor in recent weeks. It even fired several hundred artillery shells into South Korea.
Kim Jong-un has already invited Putin to Pyongyang once. It is logical that both regimes do not have many friends, said a Russian (9/2023):
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