{"id":6904,"date":"2023-09-15T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2023-09-15T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:29:58","slug":"kim-visits-aeronautics-factory-in-russias-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sciencetech\/kim-visits-aeronautics-factory-in-russias-far-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim visits aeronautics factory in Russia&#8217;s far east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited an aeronautics factory Friday on his tour of Russia&#8217;s far east following his summit with President Vladimir Putin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days after meeting Putin at a spaceport, amid speculation they would agree an arms deal, Kim&#8217;s bullet-proof train arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russian news agencies reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim is in the city, an important Russian industrial centre, to visit an aviation firm producing military and civil equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RIA Novosti news agency published footage of Kim&#8217;s train arriving in the city, with the red carpet rolled out to greet him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was met with flowers, music, a dance group and ceremonial loaves of bread, the Interfax agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim, who seldom leaves his country, held talks with Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin said on television Wednesday that Kim &#8220;will visit factories where civilian and combat aviation equipment is produced&#8221; in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His visit to Russia&#8217;s far east comes as US officials and experts have said Moscow is interested in buying North Korean ammunition to use in the conflict in Ukraine &#8212; an arms deal that would defy global sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim&#8217;s visit will last a few more days, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Thursday, without giving further details.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited an aeronautics factory Friday on his tour of Russia&#8217;s far east following his summit with President Vladimir Putin. Two days after meeting Putin at a spaceport, amid speculation they would agree an arms deal, Kim&#8217;s bullet-proof train arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russian news agencies reported. Kim is in the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,2621,2622,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-russia","category-russia-asia","category-sciencetech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}