{"id":2027697,"date":"2023-09-11T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-un-reportedly-traveling-to-russia-for-potential-putin-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T07:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:53:32","slug":"kim-jong-un-reportedly-traveling-to-russia-for-potential-putin-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-un-reportedly-traveling-to-russia-for-potential-putin-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un allegedly heading to Russia for possible Putin meet."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkim-jong-un-reportedly-traveling-to-russia-for-potential-putin-meeting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Kim \u200cJong\u200d Un\u2064 Reportedly on His Way to Russia for Potential Meeting with\u2062 Vladimir Putin<\/h2>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is reportedly \u200don his way to \u200dRussia on Monday for a potential meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, multiple South Korean media outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Russia nor North Korea&#8217;s governments have officially confirmed the two leaders would meet, but \u2062Putin reportedly arrived in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, \u200daccording to state TV Russia 24, which is where the Eastern Economic Forum \u200cis taking place this week.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Chosun \u2062Ilbo newspaper said Kim left \u200cPyongyang late on Sunday and would meet Putin \u200das early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h3>Advancing Discussions and Potential Deal<\/h3>\n<p>In late August, U.S. officials warned that Russia&#8217;s attempts to secure a deal for\u200b weapons from North Korea for its war \u200cin Ukraine have &#8220;advanced,&#8221; with a possibility of a meeting between\u2063 Kim and Putin. The U.S. initially uncovered that North Korea had provided\u2064 Russia with infantry rockets and missiles late last year, while the U.S. is trying \u2064to publicly pressure\u200c North Korea out of a subsequent deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our current analysis is that\u200b discussions between North Korea and Russia, with \u200brespect to North Korea providing military support to Russia for its war \u200cin Ukraine \u2014 that those discussions are\u200c actively advancing,&#8221;\u2063 National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters \u200dlast week. &#8220;We also have information, as we have indicated \u200dpublicly, that North Korea\u2019s\u2063 leader, Kim Jong Un, has some expectation that those discussions will continue as we go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-un-reportedly-traveling-to-russia-for-potential-putin-meeting\/\" title=\"Kim Jong Un allegedly heading to Russia for possible Putin meet.\">forward \u2014 including leader-level discussions<\/a>, perhaps\u200c even in-person leader-level discussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan \u2063did not specify, when \u2063asked by reporters, what North\u200c Korea could get out of a potential agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A week earlier, National Security Council coordinator John Kirby told reporters that a deal would \u200dlikely net Russia &#8220;significant quantities and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">multiple types<\/a> of munitions from the DPRK which the Russian military plans to use in Ukraine,&#8221; adding that it\u200b &#8220;could also \u200binclude the provision of raw materials that would assist Russia&#8217;s \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-kathleen-hicks-as-deputy-defense-secretary\/\" title=\"Senate Confirms Kathleen Hicks as Deputy Defense Secretary\">defense industrial base<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>A Rare Trip \u2064for Kim Jong Un<\/h3>\n<p>Kim, since assuming power in \u200d2011, has infrequently left the country, and hasn\u2019t since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-believes-pelosis-reported-trip-to-taiwan-is-not-a-good-idea-biden-says\/\" title=\"Military Believes Pelosi\u2019s Reported Trip To Taiwan Is \u2018Not A Good Idea,\u2019 Biden Says\">reported trip<\/a> \u200cwould be his tenth, and the previous nine came in 2018 and 2019 as he negotiated with the U.S. and then-president Donald\u2064 Trump over his country\u2019s nuclear weapons and \u2062missile programs.<\/p>\n<p>Kim traveled to Vladivostok for a meeting with Putin\u2064 in April 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is said to be heading to Russia to possibly meet with President Vladimir Putin. While there is no official confirmation from either government, Putin has reportedly arrived in Vladivostok. 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