MOSCOW, Sep 4 North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun plans to visit Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials. this month to meet with President Vladimir Putin,» the article reads.
According to the newspaper's sources, the visit is planned to «discuss the possibility of supplying more weapons to Russia» and military cooperation.
In addition, the newspaper's interlocutors put forward several assumptions about where exactly Kim Jong-un would go. One option is Vladivostok, where he can meet with the Russian leader at the Eastern Economic Forum. Some officials believe that the North Korean leader will visit the mooring site of the Pacific Fleet ships. Others assume that he can go to the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region and Moscow.
If Kim Jong-un decides to visit the capital of Primorye, then he will most likely choose an armored train for transportation, NYT sources admitted.
The DPRK leader already visited Vladivostok in April 2019 on an armored train. That visit was his first trip to Russia since taking office in 2011.
Pyongyang has repeatedly refuted statements by Western politicians and the media about arms supplies to Moscow. According to a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, the country has never had such deals with Russia, and he called any reports of this an absurd rumor.
Besides, as Kwon Jong Geun, head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's department for US affairs, emphasized, Washington foolishly tried to justify providing military assistance to Ukraine by spreading a groundless version of «arms deals between the DPRK and Russia.»
Official Representative Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, in turn, stated that the topic of arms supplies to Moscow from Pyongyang and Tehran was artificially thrown into the American media.