MOSCOW, June 17. President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to the DPRK on June 18-19, the Kremlin press service reported.
«At the invitation of the Chairman of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un, President Vladimir Putin will visit on June 18-19 with a friendly state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,» the statement said.
The last time Putin traveled to the DPRK was in 2000. Then he met in Pyongyang with the then current head of the republic, Kim Jong Il.
Last fall, the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, visited Russia. The visit lasted from September 12 to 17. During these days, he visited the Vostochny cosmodrome, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Knevichi airfield in Primorye and Vladivostok.
At the same time, the head of the DPRK invited his Russian colleague to his country. As press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted, Putin gratefully accepted this invitation.
Before this, Kim Jong-un came to Vladivostok in April 2019. This was the first meeting of the leaders of the two states.