North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Saturday, where he was welcomed by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, state news agency Tass said. Kim Jong-un, who is making his first foreign trip to Russia since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, arrived at Knevichi airport in Vladisvostok from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where he visited aircraft factories on Friday, Tass said.
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Kim Jong-un would attend a “demonstration” of the Russian Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok. In this large city on the borders of Russia, located near the Chinese and North Korean borders, Kim Jong-un must also “visit the Far Eastern Federal University and certain facilities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, including the laboratories work on marine biology,” Vladimir Putin detailed on Russian television.