North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly said that his visit to Russia was a clear show of the "strategic importance" of the two countries' relations. Kim arrived in Russia by private train on Tuesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin amid warnings from Washington the two countries should not trade weapons. Images released by KCNA showed Kim arriving at the train station in the border town of Khasan on Tuesday morning and being greeted by senior officials from Moscow and elsewhere.
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00:00 North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong-un has said that his visit to Russia
00:12 was a clear show of the strategic importance of the two countries' relations.
00:17 Kim arrived in Russia by private train on Tuesday for talks with President Vladimir
00:21 Putin amid warnings from Washington that the two countries should not trade weapons.
00:26 Images released by KCNA showed Kim arriving at the train station in the border town of
00:31 Khasan on Tuesday morning and being greeted by senior officials from Moscow and elsewhere.
00:37 He is also shown meeting with Russia's Natural Resources Minister Alexander Kozlov.
00:44 According to reports, talks between Putin and Kim on a possible arms deal are set to
00:48 begin soon.
00:50 Kim travelled for two days in an armoured train to the Vostokhny Space Centre in Russia's
00:55 Far East. Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile hours ahead of the meeting.
01:00 The two sanctioned regimes are expected to strike a deal that exchanges weapons for humanitarian
01:05 aid.
01:06 The meeting between Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin is being closely watched by the US and
01:11 its allies, although Pyongyang and Moscow deny that their talks are about military cooperation.
01:17 The White House said that it had new information that negotiations between Russia and North
01:21 Korea were on a weapons deal were actively advancing.
01:26 National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Russia's Defence Minister Sergei
01:30 Shoigu had tried to convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia during
01:36 a recent visit to North Korea.
01:38 According to analysts, North Korea also wants food, aid and possibly technology to help
01:43 its banned nuclear and missile programmes.
01:45 But on Tuesday, the Kremlin said that the full-fledged visit would cover bilateral relations,
01:51 the situation in the region and in the global arena.
01:55 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would always act in its national interest.
02:00 The highly anticipated visit was expected to take place in Vladivostok, where Putin
02:05 was hosting an economic forum.
02:07 But apparently, Kim's train trundled past the city and headed north towards the space
02:12 centre.
02:13 The Vostochny Space Centre is Russia's most advanced space centre and is said to be Putin's
02:18 pet project.
02:19 It is being reported that North Korea may seek cooperation from Russia on its space
02:24 programme.
02:25 Late last month, it failed for the second time to place a spy satellite in orbit after
02:30 a rocket failure.
02:32 On his way to the space centre, Kim Jong-un made a brief stop to the border station of
02:37 Khasan on Tuesday morning, where he was greeted by a Russian delegation.
02:41 Kim's train is rumoured to include at least 20 heavy bulletproof carriages.
02:46 The North Korean leader's last trip abroad was to Vladivostok in 2019 for a summit with
02:52 Putin after the collapse of nuclear disarmament talks with the then US President Donald Trump.
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