Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, met with Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, on Thursday in Pyongyang. The foreign minister of Russia is in North Korea on an official visit and has met with a number of the country’s top officials. In Pyongyang, Kim also personally greeted Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
“President of the State Affairs of the DPRK Kim Jong Un received Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov,” the Russian Foreign Minister posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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Earlier in the day, Lavrov attended a solemn ceremony in North Korea’s Pyongyang where he laid flowers at the monuments of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, as well as at the Liberation Monument.
Lavrov also laid flowers at Andrey Karlov’s bas-relief at the Russian Embassy in DPRK, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.
The Russian leader also paid tribute to the Red Army soldiers who laid their lives in the fight for independence from Axis Japan’s occupation and laid flowers at the Soviet Memorial cemetery.
Lavrov also met with the North Korean counterpart, Choe Son-hui and also participated in the signing ceremony of the Inter-Ministry of Foreign Affairs Exchange plan.
Earlier in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un held a meeting at a Russian spaceport.