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The Diplomat (16 September 2023)

Takahashi Kosuke

Russia-North Korea military ties have grown closer since the start of the Ukraine War.

On September 13, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un met and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the Vostochny Cosmodrome – a spaceport located in the Amur Oblast in Russia’s Far East region. They held a marathon meeting that lasted over five hours and was followed by a dinner of crab dumplings and sturgeon. It was their second meeting, with the first taking place in April 2019 in Vladivostok; the visit also represented Kim Jong Un’s first trip abroad since 2019.

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