A lavish menu of duck and fig salad, crab dumplings, sturgeon and beef was presented to Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin as they discussed a potential arms and weapons technology deal at a cosmodrome in Russia’s far east on Wednesday. 

Their rich meal started with speciality dumplings made with Kamchatka crab, White Amur fish soup and a sorbet from sea buckthorn, a deciduous shrub – all washed down with red and white wines from the Divnomorskoe manor in Southern Russia, according to a Kremlin reporter.

The main course offered a choice of sturgeon with mushrooms and potatoes or an entrecote of marbled beef with grilled vegetables, followed by a calorific dessert of red bilberries from the taiga with pine nuts and condensed milk.

Putin and Kim discussed the possibility of sending a North Korean into space, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian president’s spokesman as saying.