No meeting with top North Korean diplomat on Putin’s agenda – Kremlin – Russian politics and diplomacy

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has no plans to meet North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui during her official visit to Moscow.

“No, the president does not have such a meeting on his schedule,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Earlier, the Russian Embassy in North Korea reported that Choe Son Hui left for Moscow on October 28 for an official visit and met with Russian Ambassador Alexander Matsegora before her departure. The embassy specified that the trip of the North Korean Foreign Minister to Russia takes place within the framework of the strategic dialogue, an agreement to intensify reached by Russian and North Korean leaders Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un during the state visit of the Russian president to Pyongyang. in June.