00:00 North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong-un has said that his visit to Russia
00:12 was a clear show of the strategic importance of the two countries' relations.
00:17 Kim arrived in Russia by private train on Tuesday for talks with President Vladimir
00:21 Putin amid warnings from Washington that the two countries should not trade weapons.
00:26 Images released by KCNA showed Kim arriving at the train station in the border town of
00:31 Khasan on Tuesday morning and being greeted by senior officials from Moscow and elsewhere.
00:37 He is also shown meeting with Russia's Natural Resources Minister Alexander Kozlov.
00:44 According to reports, talks between Putin and Kim on a possible arms deal are set to
00:48 begin soon.
00:50 Kim travelled for two days in an armoured train to the Vostokhny Space Centre in Russia's
00:55 Far East. Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile hours ahead of the meeting.
01:00 The two sanctioned regimes are expected to strike a deal that exchanges weapons for humanitarian
01:05 aid.
01:06 The meeting between Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin is being closely watched by the US and
01:11 its allies, although Pyongyang and Moscow deny that their talks are about military cooperation.
01:17 The White House said that it had new information that negotiations between Russia and North
01:21 Korea were on a weapons deal were actively advancing.
01:26 National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Russia's Defence Minister Sergei
01:30 Shoigu had tried to convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia during
01:36 a recent visit to North Korea.
01:38 According to analysts, North Korea also wants food, aid and possibly technology to help
01:43 its banned nuclear and missile programmes.
01:45 But on Tuesday, the Kremlin said that the full-fledged visit would cover bilateral relations,
01:51 the situation in the region and in the global arena.
01:55 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would always act in its national interest.
02:00 The highly anticipated visit was expected to take place in Vladivostok, where Putin
02:05 was hosting an economic forum.
02:07 But apparently, Kim's train trundled past the city and headed north towards the space
02:12 centre.
02:13 The Vostochny Space Centre is Russia's most advanced space centre and is said to be Putin's
02:18 pet project.
02:19 It is being reported that North Korea may seek cooperation from Russia on its space
02:24 programme.
02:25 Late last month, it failed for the second time to place a spy satellite in orbit after
02:30 a rocket failure.
02:32 On his way to the space centre, Kim Jong-un made a brief stop to the border station of
02:37 Khasan on Tuesday morning, where he was greeted by a Russian delegation.
02:41 Kim's train is rumoured to include at least 20 heavy bulletproof carriages.
02:46 The North Korean leader's last trip abroad was to Vladivostok in 2019 for a summit with
02:52 Putin after the collapse of nuclear disarmament talks with the then US President Donald Trump.
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