Putin to Meet North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui Today

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui on the evening of the 16th (local time).

On the same day, Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for the Kremlin, announced that Foreign Minister Choe and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are scheduled to directly report the results of the bilateral foreign ministers' talks to President Putin. Foreign Ministers Choe and Lavrov will hold talks from noon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Reception House in Moscow, focusing on bilateral cooperation and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left in the photo) and North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui
[Photo by Yonhap News]

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Spokesperson Peskov said, "Minister Lavrov and Foreign Minister Choe will inform the president about the outcomes of the talks and how the agreements made at last year's summit between the two countries' leaders held in Russia's Far East are progressing."

There is also a possibility that President Putin's visit schedule to North Korea will be coordinated during this meeting. In a briefing the previous day, Peskov mentioned that President Putin hopes to visit North Korea soon, and that specific dates will be arranged through diplomatic channels. Foreign Minister Choe arrived in Moscow on the 14th at the invitation of Minister Lavrov and will carry out an official visit to Russia for three days from the 15th to the 17th.

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