North Korean foreign minister arrives in Moscow for talks

1/11/2024 18:02

        North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has arrived in Moscow and will hold strategic consultations with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
        
        Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the ministry, in a post on her official Telegram channel, published photographs of Lavrov meeting Choe at a Moscow train station.
        
        Zakharova said, "Today, talks between the heads of Russia and the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) will be held in Moscow. Sergei Lavrov greeted his counterpart with a bouquet of flowers."
        
        "The meeting began at the Yaroslavsky railway station (in Moscow), where a memorial plaque was unveiled to mark the occasion of Kim Il Sung's 1949 visit to the USSR," she said, referring to the founder of the DPRK.
        
        The visit, Choe's second in six weeks, comes after Pyongyang tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile this week and as Washington says there are 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia, including as many as 8,000 deployed in Russia's Kursk region where Ukrainian troops have dug in.