North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Wednesday, and their talks were "very substantive," according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The duo, which had not met in person since before the coronavirus pandemic, spent roughly five hours together, according to Russian state news agency TASS. They met at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
“The negotiations between Putin and Kim Jong Un were very substantive,” Peskov said, according to RIA, a Russian media outlet. The Kremlin spokesman noted that North Korea "shows huge interest in developing bilateral ties with Russia."
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The highly anticipated meeting comes days after U.S. warnings that Moscow is seeking to procure military support from North Korea for its war in Ukraine. U.S. officials have accused Pyongyang of providing the Russian paramilitary organization known as the Wagner Group with weapons in late 2022.
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