North Korean foreign minister arrives in Moscow for talks

moscow — 

North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has arrived successful Moscow and volition clasp strategical consultations with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov connected Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the ministry, successful a station connected her authoritative Telegram channel, published photographs of Lavrov gathering Choe astatine a Moscow bid station.

"Today, talks betwixt the heads of Russia and the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) volition beryllium held successful Moscow. Sergei Lavrov greeted his counterpart with a bouquet of flowers," said Zakharova.

"The gathering began astatine the Yaroslavsky railway presumption (in Moscow), wherever a memorial plaque was unveiled to people the juncture of Kim Il Sung's 1949 sojourn to the USSR," she said, referring to the laminitis of the DPRK.

The visit, Choe's 2nd successful six weeks, comes aft Pyongyang tested a caller intercontinental ballistic rocket this week and arsenic Washington says determination are 10,000 North Korean troops successful Russia, including arsenic galore arsenic 8,000 deployed successful Russia's Kursk portion wherever Ukrainian troops person dug in.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said connected Thursday that the United States expected the North Korean troops successful Kursk portion to participate the combat against Ukraine successful the coming days.

Moscow has neither denied nor straight confirmed the beingness of North Korean troops connected its soil. President Vladimir Putin has said it is for Russia to determine however to instrumentality a pact helium signed with North Korean person Kim Jong Un successful June that includes a communal defence clause.