Boosting ties: Shoigu (left), who arrived at Pyongyang Airport, being received by Party Secretary Park Chung-cheon (right). — AP
A top security aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Pyongyang for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un amid talk of a potential summit between the two leaders.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu visited North Korea to meet with Kim and other senior officials, Russia’s TASS news agency reported in a two-sentence dispatch yesterday.
