North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was traveling to Russia aboard his personal armored train early Tuesday, Pyongyang said, with Kim expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a potential arms deal amid Moscow’s deepening isolation over the war in Ukraine.
Kim left Pyongyang “by his train on Sunday afternoon to visit the Russian Federation,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said, adding that he was “accompanied by leading officials of the (ruling Workers’ Party of Korea), government and armed forces organs.”
The dispatch did not say whether Kim had crossed the Russian border or when he would meet with Putin, but South Korean media, quoting government sources in Seoul, reported Monday that Kim’s luxury train appeared bound for the Pacific coast city of Vladivostok, where the two could meet later Tuesday or Wednesday.
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