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SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived Friday in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in far eastern Russia and is expected to visit a plant that builds fighter jets as South Korea has said it\u2019s concerned his visit is focused on expanding military cooperation in a possible arms-for-technology deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visit to Komsomolsk-on-Amur is one of several the North Korean leader is making on a days-long trip to Russia. Arriving on an armored train from North Korea, he rolled into Russia Tuesday and was met by officials at a station near the Russia-North Korea border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a long train trip north, on Wednesday Kim met President Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome and was greeted by Putin with a 40-second handshake. On Thursday, he largely disappeared from view<\/a>, before reappearing local time Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un responds as Russian President Vladimir Putin sends him off from the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published a video which showed Kim\u2019s train pulling into the station as North Korean officials waited by a specially constructed ramp and red carpet. Shortly afterwards, his convoy swept out of Komsomolsk-on-Amur station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin told Russian state TV after the summit that Kim would visit an aircraft plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and then go to Vladivostok to view Russia\u2019s Pacific Fleet, a university and other facilities. The visit to the aircraft plant would possibly hint at what Kim seeks to gain from Russia in exchange for help fueling Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington warned that Kim and Putin\u2019s summit could lead to a deal for North Korea to supply Moscow with ammunition and there is widespread concern in Seoul that North Korea would in return receive advanced weapons technologies from Russia, including those related to military spy satellites, which would increase the threat posed by Kim\u2019s military nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe express our deep concern and regret that despite repeated warnings from the international community, North Korea and Russia discussed military cooperation issues, including satellite development, during their summit,\u201d said Lim Soo-suk, South Korea\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny science and technology cooperation that contributes to nuclear weapons and missile development, including satellite systems that involve ballistic missile technologies, runs against U.N. Security Council resolutions,\u201d he said in a briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lim also pointed out that Kim\u2019s delegation in Russia includes several people sanctioned by the Security Council over involvement in illicit North Korean weapons development activities, including Korean People\u2019s Army Marshal Ri Pyong Chol and Jo Chun Yong, a ruling party official who handles munitions policies. Lim said Moscow should realize there will be \u201cvery negative impacts\u201d on its relations with Seoul if it proceeds with military cooperation with North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Kim\u2019s arrival, traffic police in Komsomolsk-on-Amur blocked the entrance to the station with a police car and ticker tape \u2014 prompting passengers who were still arriving on scheduled trains to lift it up to move past. Some residents were pictured peering out from their balconies to watch as Kim\u2019s convoy swept past. Shortly after Kim\u2019s convoy left the station, a group of women in Russian national costumes and headdresses, presumably part of a welcoming party, were pictured leaving. Flowers were also planted near the station and residents were told roads would be closed from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday so that the North Korean leader\u2019s car could travel through the city, according to local Telegram channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The map of road closures shared by one Telegram channel showed closures from the station, across town to an area where the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant is based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho, who handles affairs with North Korea, warned that potential arms transfers between the North and Russia would invite stronger responses from South Korea, the U.S. and Japan, which have been stepping up their trilateral security cooperation<\/a> to cope with regional threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Wednesday that North Korea would face consequences if it supplies arms to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo nation on the planet, nobody, should be helping Mr. Putin kill innocent Ukrainians,\u201d Kirby said. If the countries decide to move forward with an arms deal, the U.S. will take measure of the arrangement and \u201cdeal with it appropriately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world has been largely relying on Russian and North Korean media for information about Kim\u2019s diplomacy in Russia, which underscores an aligning interest between the nuclear-armed countries locked in escalating tensions with the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day after giving intense coverage to the summit<\/a>, Russian media outlets were largely silent about Kim\u2019s whereabouts Thursday. North Korean state media have been reporting on his activities in Russia a day late and crafting their reports to support the government\u2019s propaganda needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said on Thursday that Kim had invited Putin to visit North Korea at a \u201cconvenient time\u201d and that Putin accepted with \u201cpleasure and reaffirmed his will to invariably carry forward\u201d the history of friendship between the nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin had accepted the invitation and said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is expected to visit North Korea in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During their meeting on Wednesday at Russia\u2019s spaceport in the Far East, Kim vowed \u201cfull and unconditional support\u201d for Putin in what he described as a \u201cjust fight against hegemonic forces to defend its sovereign rights, security and interests,\u201d in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to meet at the Vostochny Cosmodrome suggested that Kim is seeking Russian help<\/a> in developing military reconnaissance satellites. He has previously said they are crucial to enhancing the threat of his nuclear-capable missiles. North Korea has repeatedly failed<\/a> to place spy satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some analysts question whether Russia, which has always closely guarded its sensitive weapons technologies, would be willing to share them with North Korea in exchange for what may end up being limited supplies of munitions moved slowly through their small land link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say military cooperation between the countries could be more about conventional capabilities, such as Russia possibly helping North Korea improve its badly aged air force that remains reliant on fighter jets sent by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin told reporters that Russia and North Korea have \u201clots of interesting projects\u201d in spheres like transportation and agriculture and that Moscow is providing its neighbor with humanitarian aid. But he avoided talking about military cooperation, saying only that Russia is abiding by the sanctions prohibiting procuring weapons from North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday\u2019s meeting came hours after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles<\/a> toward the sea, extending a highly provocative run in testing since 2022, as Kim used the distraction caused by war in Ukraine<\/a> to accelerate his weapons development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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