The meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which widely anticipated and has raised fears in the West about a possible arms trade for Moscow’s conflict in Ukraine, confirmed by both countries on September 11.
Kim Meets Putin
According to a short statement posted on the Kremlin website, Mr. Kim will be visiting at Mr. Putin’s request and “in the coming days.” The official Korean Central News Agency of North Korea also reported on the visit, stating that the leaders will meet but not providing a time or location.
The train Mr. Kim previously took on his excursions abroad green with yellow trim, and it was spotted by Associated Press reporters near the North Korea-Russia border at a stop on the North Korean side of a border river.
The principal deputy national security advisor for U.S. President Joe Biden, Jon Finer, told reporters on Sunday that purchasing weapons from North Korea “may be the best and may be the only option” available to Moscow as it attempts to maintain its war effort.
“We are quite concerned about the possibility of North Korea providing the Russian military with new weapons. On a jet transporting Biden from India to Vietnam, Mr. Finer observed, “It is intriguing to think about what it means that when Russia searches the world for allies who can aid it, it falls on North Korea.
A summit between Mr. Kim and Mr. Putin, according to some observers, would be more about symbolic advantages than meaningful military collaboration.
They assert that Russia, which historically kept its most crucial weapons technologies closely guarded—even from important allies like China—could reluctant to share significant technology with North Korea in exchange for what likely to modest war supplies shipped over a sparse rail connection between the two nations.
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