US EditionRussia’s Top Security Officials Visits North Korea
- Sergei Shoigu, Russia's Security Council chief and former defense minister, arrived in Pyongyang on June 17, 2025, for talks with Kim Jong Un.
- This visit follows a 2024 mutual defense pact and ongoing military cooperation, including North Korean troop deployments to support Russian forces in Ukraine's Kursk region.
- Shoigu met Kim Jong Un multiple times recently, discussing implementing prior agreements within a framework of a strategic partnership that Russia and North Korea formalized last year.
- An April 2025 inquiry by Reuters revealed that millions of artillery shells from North Korea were transported to Russian frontlines via maritime and rail routes, while British military intelligence reported over 6,000 casualties among North Korean soldiers in Kursk.
- The deepening Russia-North Korea alliance suggests sustained military collaboration amid the Ukraine conflict, despite official denials from both countries about arms shipments.
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Russia’s Top Security Officials Visits North Korea
“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia’s top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang on Tuesday and discussed a “special military operation” in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine,” Reuters reports.
Russia’s Shoigu meets North Korea’s Kim for second time in weeks
Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia's Security Council, met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the second time in less than two weeks during a visit to North Korea on Tuesday, Russian news agency Interfax reported. Interfax quoted the Russian Security Council as saying that negotiations between Kim and Shoigu, who until last year was Russia's defence minister, had begun. It did not specify the subject of their talks. Shoigu previously visited Py…
Russian presidential security official Shoigu arrives in North Korea, reports Tass
Russia's top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu was expected to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after arriving in Pyongyang "on special instructions" from President Vladimir Putin, Russia's Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
Colorado Springs Gazette
Top Russian security official holds talks with N.Korea's Kim for second time in two weeks
By Andrew Osborn
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