Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to North Korea for a two-day visit starting Tuesday, the Kremlin said, in the Russian president’s first trip to the country in more than two decades — and at the most recent sign of an increasingly deeper alignment that has raised widespread international concern.
This is a rare foreign trip for Putin since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 and a key moment for North Korean President Kim Jong-un, who has not hosted any other world leader in Pyongyang – one of the most politically isolated capitals in the world – since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The closely watched visit is expected to further expand a burgeoning partnership between the two powers, which is based on shared animosity toward the West and driven by Putin’s need for support in his ongoing war against Ukraine.
The United States, South Korea and other countries have accused North Korea of providing substantial military aid to Russia’s war effort in recent months, while observers have raised concerns that Moscow may be violating international sanctions to help Pyongyang develop the its nascent military satellite program.
Both countries deny North Korean arms exports.
Source: CNN Brasil
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