Meeting in Russia’s Far East could mean worrying weapons developments in Ukraine and the North Korean leader’s military ambitions
The venue for his meeting with Putin, Vostochny cosmodrome, is significant. Before their talks, the leaders toured assembly and launch facilities at the cosmodrome, where Kim was briefed on technical details about Russian space vehicles.
Four years after his second, ill-fated summit with Donald Trump in Hanoi in 2019, the North Korean leader has allied himself to Washington’s nemesis in Moscow – a shift hastened by the course of the war in Ukraine. “Now we want to further develop the relationship,” Kim said, according to footage broadcast on Russian TV.
“No nation on the planet, nobody, should be helping Mr Putin kill innocent Ukrainians,” White House national security council spokesperson John Kirby said this week. If the countries decide to move forward with an arms deal, the US “deal with it appropriately”, he added.in recent years, joined the chorus of condemnation, with the new foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, warning that a deal would violate UN sanctions against the North.
In response, Russia accused Washington – which is supplying weapons to Ukraine – of hypocrisy. “The United States has no right to lecture us on how to live,” Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said in a statement.watchers scoured the passenger list on Kim’s train for clues about the purpose of his visit to Russia, one prominent member of his entourage slipped into the country almost unnoticed.
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