2023-09-11 21:59:11
Archive image of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin (EFE/ Alexey Nikolsky)
The United States considered this Monday that the meeting that Vladimir Putin and the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, are going to hold in Russia, can be interpreted as the Russian leader being “begging” for help from his counterpart.
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“We interpret it as him begging for help,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a press conference.
This is Kim’s first trip abroad since 2019. The Kremlin today defended that visit and noted that the North Korean leader will arrive in Russia in the coming days.
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Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov stressed that the two will probably meet in Vladivostok, capital of the Russian Far East.
“It doesn’t seem like a social meeting,” Miller ironically, advancing that Washington will monitor the outcome of that meeting “very closely.”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves from a train (Archyde.com)
Meanwhile, the public agency KCNA reported that Kim Jong-un left Pyongyang on Sunday to travel by train to Russia, state media reported on Tuesday.
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The president of North Korea “left on Sunday followingnoon with his (armored) train to visit the Russian Federation,” KCNA indicated regarding the start of a rare official trip that will probably take him to the Russian town of Vladivostok, according to experts.
Last week The New York Times and other Anglo-Saxon media reported that this future meeting between Kim and Putin had military-technical cooperation as its axis of its agenda with an eye on the war in Ukraine.
The United States has recently reiterated that North Korea “will pay a price in the international community” if it supplies weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine and has called on the country to respect its public commitment that it will not do so.
FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok, Russia (KCNA via REUTERS)
The White House has called on North Korean authorities to “not provide or sell weapons” to the Russian Armed Forces, all amid the impending meeting of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the Russian president. , Vladimir Putin, in Russia.
“As we have publicly warned, arms discussions between Russia and North Korea are expected to continue during Kim Jong Un’s trip to Russia,” said US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson.
In this context, the US Administration has once once more urged Pyongyang to “comply with the public commitments” previously assumed not to provide arms support to Russia, according to the US news network CNN.
Vladimir Putin uses binoculars to watch military exercises (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik via AP)
For his part, the spokesman for the Department of Defense, General Patrick Ryder, has acknowledged that the United States remains “concerned” regarding the possible arms agreement between Russia and North Korea, and has pointed out that he has no information regarding when or where it can be hold the meeting between Kim and Putin.
Both the Kremlin and the North Korean state agency confirmed this Monday that Putin and Kim plan to meet at some point this week. In fact, the North Korean leader has traveled by train to Russian territory, while Putin has already landed in Vladivostok, in the far east of the country.
The United States authorities have warned of this possible meeting over the last few days with the aim of signing an agreement for the supply of weapons that allows Russia to obtain material to which it does not have access due to the international sanctions imposed in response to their invasion of Ukraine.
(With information from EFE and Europa Press)
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