Putin awkwardly shakes North Korean minister’s hand for exactly one minute

This is the weird infinitesimal Putin goes successful for an awkward handshake with North Korea’s overseas curate astatine the Kremlin.

Choe Son Hui looked acrophobic erstwhile the Russian President gripped her manus for 1 infinitesimal portion expressing his gratitude to North Korea for sending 11,000 troops to Ukraine.

Putin was not owed to conscionable Choe Son Hui but helium cleared his docket to specifically conscionable with her.

She said: ‘From the precise opening of the peculiar subject operation, respected comrade Chairman of State Affairs Kim Jong Un gave the bid that we, without looking implicit our enarthrosis astatine anyone, should invariably and powerfully enactment and supply assistance to the Russian service and the Russian radical successful their beatified war.

‘We person nary uncertainty that nether the omniscient enactment of the respected President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the Russian service and radical volition surely execute a large triumph successful their ineffable conflict to support the sovereign rights and information of their state.’

Handshaking is not a wide customized successful North Korea, hence wherefore the 60-year-old diplomat whitethorn person looked concerned.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is already warring North Korean troops connected the frontline successful Kursk.

He warned astir the dangers of escalation without further enactment from the west.

Zelensky warned successful his nightly quality connected TV: ‘As for the North Korean troops successful Russia, determination are already 11,000 successful the Kursk region.

‘We spot an summation successful North Koreans and we bash not spot an summation successful the absorption of our [Western] partners.’

The North Korean troops are wearing Russian uniform, according to Andrii Kovalenko, from Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council.

He said: ‘The archetypal ones person already been nether fire.

‘I can’t speech astir the losses yet, I don’t cognize this, the accusation is being checked.

‘But the information that the archetypal ones person already been spotted and determination was shelling connected these positions, that’s for sure.’

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