MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in Moscow with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, state news agency TASS reported.
Putin noted that they were meeting on Russia’s National Unity Day, a public holiday, and Choe conveyed “sincere, warm, comradely greetings” from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
In her second trip to Russia in six weeks, FM Choe told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday that the two countries enjoyed relations of “invincible military comradeship.”
The meeting occurs amid reports indicating North Korea’s deployment of 11,000 troops to Russia.
Conversely, neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have directly acknowledged the deployment, but Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia questioned why its allies like North Korea could not help Moscow, while Western countries claim the right to help Kyiv.
