{"id":2030482,"date":"2023-09-13T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-un-meets-with-putin-celebrates-russias-sacred-invasion-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:24:25","slug":"kim-jong-un-meets-with-putin-celebrates-russias-sacred-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-un-meets-with-putin-celebrates-russias-sacred-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un meets Putin, praises Russia&#8217;s &#8216;sacred&#8217; Ukraine invasion."},"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\">20<\/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-meets-with-putin-celebrates-russias-sacred-invasion-of-ukraine%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=2030482&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--><div>\n<h2>Kim Jong Un\u200b and Vladimir Putin \u200dHold Rare Summit<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>North Korean leader\u200b Kim Jong\u2064 Un and Russian president Vladimir Putin met for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/before-israeli-arab-summit-blinken-seeks-to-reassure-allies-on-iran\/\" title=\"Before Israeli-Arab summit, Blinken seeks to reassure allies on Iran\">rare summit<\/a> on Wednesday at which they\u2064 discussed military matters, the war in\u2063 Ukraine, and \u2063possible Russian help for the secretive communist state&#8217;s satellite\u2064 program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the summit, Putin showed Kim around\u2064 Russia&#8217;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-un-meets-with-putin-celebrates-russias-sacred-invasion-of-ukraine\/\" title=\"Kim Jong Un meets Putin, praises Russia's 'sacred' Ukraine invasion.\">advanced space rocket\u2062 launch site<\/a> \u2063in Russia&#8217;s Far East. They also discussed\u2064 the possibility of sending a North Korean cosmonaut into space. Kim,\u200b who arrived by train from North Korea, asked\u2062 detailed questions about rockets as Putin showed him around the Vostochny Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n<p>After the tour, Putin, \u206470,\u2063 and Kim, 39, held talks for several\u200c hours with\u200b their \u200bministers \u2063and then discussed world \u2062affairs and possible areas of cooperation one-on-one. They enjoyed an opulent lunch of Russian &#8220;pelmeni&#8221; dumplings stuffed\u200b with Kamchatka crab, \u200cfollowed by sturgeon with mushrooms and\u200c potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>During the lunch, Kim raised a toast with a glass of \u2064Russian wine\u200b to Putin&#8217;s health, to the victory of &#8220;great \u2064Russia,&#8221; and to Korean-Russian friendship.\u200c He predicted victory\u200b for Moscow\u200b in its \u2063&#8221;sacred fight&#8221; with the West in the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I firmly believe \u200bthat the heroic Russian army and people will brilliantly inherit their victories \u2064and traditions and \u200bvigorously demonstrate their noble dignity and \u200chonor on the two fronts of military operations and\u2064 building a powerful nation,&#8221; \u2062Kim told Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian army and people will certainly\u2063 win a great victory in the sacred struggle\u200c for \u2062the punishment \u2062of a\u2062 great evil that claims hegemony\u2063 and feeds an expansionist\u200b illusion,&#8221; Kim added, raising his glass.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and \u2064South Korean officials have\u200b expressed concern that Kim could\u2063 provide weapons and ammunition \u2064to Russia, which has expended vast stocks in more than 18 months of \u200cwar in Ukraine. \u200cMoscow and Pyongyang have denied such \u2064intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Putin gave numerous hints \u200bthat military cooperation was discussed but disclosed few details. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attended the talks. The\u2064 Kremlin said sensitive discussions between \u200bneighbors\u2064 were a private matter.<\/p>\n<p>When asked\u2064 by Russian media, who were given significant access at the\u200c summit, if Russia would \u200bhelp Kim build satellites, Putin \u200bsaid: &#8220;That&#8217;s why we \u2064came here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Russia, the \u200bsummit was an opportunity \u200dto needle the United States, the big power supporter \u2063of Ukraine, though it was\u2063 unclear just\u2064 how far Putin was prepared to go in fulfilling any\u2062 North Korean wish lists for technology.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said Kim now planned to visit \u2064military and civilian aviation factories in the Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and\u200b to inspect Russia&#8217;s Pacific \u2062fleet\u200b in Vladivostok.<\/p>\n<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will\u2062 visit Pyongyang for\u2064 more talks next month, the\u2062 Kremlin said.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Comrades&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Putin and \u200cKim called each other &#8220;comrades&#8221; at lunch and Putin repeatedly reminded Kim that it was the Soviet Union that backed North Korea\u2014and was first to recognize it\u2063 just over 75 years to the day\u2063 since it was established.<\/p>\n<p>Amid \u2063the Ukraine war, which has \u200bbecome a grinding artillery\u200c war of attrition,\u200b the United States and Kyiv&#8217;s \u200cother allies are \u200dwatching to see if Kim&#8217;s visit paves the way for a supply\u2063 of artillery shells to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Britain on Wednesday urged North \u200bKorea to end arms talks with Russia and said Kim&#8217;s visit showed how isolated Moscow has become on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has \u200djoined China in opposing\u200c new sanctions \u2063on North Korea, blocking a U.S.-led push \u2063and publicly splitting the U.N. \u2064Security Council \u2062for \u200dthe first \u2063time since it started punishing Pyongyang in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about military\u2062 cooperation, Putin said\u2062 Russia\u2064 complied with international \u2063rules but that\u2062 there were opportunities to \u200dexplore.<\/p>\n<p>The choice to meet at Vostochny\u2064 Cosmodrome\u2014a \u200dsymbol of Russia&#8217;s ambitions as \u2063a space power\u2014was notable, as North Korea has twice failed to\u200b launch reconnaissance satellites in the past four months.<\/p>\n<p>After showing \u200dKim around a building\u2062 where the Angara, Russia&#8217;s new 42.7-metre space launch rocket, is assembled, Putin said Kim had shown a &#8220;great interest in rocket engineering&#8221; during\u2064 the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead\u200d of his meeting with Putin, Kim signed the visitor book in Korean: &#8220;The \u200bglory \u200cto Russia,\u200c which gave birth to the first space conquerors, will be immortal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Ballistic Missiles<\/h3>\n<p>As Kim was making his way\u200c through the forests of \u200dRussia by train, North Korea launched two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-says-u-n-has-a-double-standard-over-missile-launches\/\" title=\"North Korea Says U.N. Has A \u2018Double Standard\u2019 Over Missile Launches\">short-range ballistic missiles<\/a> from an \u2062area near the capital, Pyongyang, into the\u2063 sea off its east coast.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first \u200bsuch launch by the North while \u2063Kim was abroad, analysts said, demonstrating an increased level of delegation and more refined control systems\u200d for the\u200c country&#8217;s\u2062 nuclear and missile programs.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2063 had previously made just seven trips abroad in his\u200b 12 years in power, all in\u200b 2018\u200c and 2019. He also briefly stepped across the \u2063inter-Korean border\u200c twice.<\/p>\n<p>The make-up \u200dof Kim&#8217;s delegation to \u200dRussia, with the notable presence of \u2063Munitions Industry \u2064Department Director Jo Chun Ryong, suggested an agenda heavy on\u2064 defense industry \u200ccooperation, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Korea, there is a proverb: good clothes are those that are new, but old friends are best friends.\u200c And\u200d our\u2062 people say: an old friend\u2064 is better\u2063 than two new ones,&#8221; Putin told Kim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This folk \u2063wisdom\u2062 is fully applicable to modern relations between our countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Hyunsu \u200dYim, Ju-min Park, Josh Smith and Soo-hyang Choi in \u2062Seoul, Kantaro Komiya in Tokyo, Lidia Kelly \u200bin Melbourne and Guy\u2064 Faulconbridge in Moscow, writing by Jack \u200dKim\/Guy Faulconbridge\/Andrew Osborn, editing by Gerry Doyle, Nick Macfie, \u200bWilliam Maclean)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian president Vladimir Putin held a rare summit, discussing military affairs, Ukraine&#8217;s war, and potential Russian support for North Korea&#8217;s satellite program. 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