North Korea’s top diplomat heads to Russia as military cooperation grows

SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui departed for a trip to Russia, state media reported Tuesday, as the two regimes continue to strengthen ties amid growing international concern about their military cooperation.

Choe left for Russia on Monday to attend the Eurasian Women’s Forum and the BRICS Women’s Forum, state-run Korean Central News Agency reported in a brief dispatch.

The Russian Embassy in Pyongyang also announced the trip on its Telegram channel, saying the minister traveled on a commercial North Korean Air Koryo flight and would participate in the forums in St. Petersburg Wednesday through Friday.

Choe will also take part in an ‘extensive cultural program,’ the embassy said.

The trip is the second to Russia this year by the North Korean envoy, who rarely travels abroad. She visited in January and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a series of high-level exchanges between the two increasingly isolated regimes.

Pyongyang and Moscow have strengthened their relationship in the wake of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Putin signing a mutual defense treaty in June…”

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