SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday (July 26), state media KCNA reported, giving him a tour of a defence expo featuring Pyongyang's banned ballistic missiles as both sides pledged to boost ties.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday , state media KCNA reported, giving him a tour of a defence expo featuring Pyongyang's banned ballistic missiles as both sides pledged to boost ties.
The groups are the first such prominent public visitors to North Korea since the start of the pandemic, and arrive as Pyongyang looks to deepen its ties with Beijing and Moscow, finding common ground in their rivalries with Washington. Photographs published by KCNA showed Mr Kim and his guests touring a large exhibition hall displaying some of the North's ballistic missiles lying on multi-axle transporter launchers. Another image showed what analysts said appeared to be a new drone.
"He repeatedly expressed the belief that the Russian army and people would achieve big successes in the struggle for building a powerful country," it said.
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