The talks will also touch on “issues on the international agenda, including the situation around Ukraine,” Russian media reported, citing the Security Council’s press team. Shoigu, formerly Russia’s defence minister, last travelled to Pyongyang in late March.
In April, the Kremlin confirmed that North Korean troops are fighting alongside Russian forces to repel a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region.
At the time, Putin praised North Korean soldiers who he said “shoulder to shoulder with Russian fighters, defended our Motherland as their own.” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said in January that Ukrainian forces captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Kursk — the first such claim by Kyiv since North Korea sent thousands of troops to shore up Moscow’s war effort on the other side of the world. (AP) GRS GRS
