Russia’s Defense Ministry said Shoigu’s visit “would contribute to strengthening bilateral military ties and mark an important stage in the development of cooperation between the two countries.” The North Korean News Agency reported that Shoigu handed over a hand-written letter from Putin to Kim. The icing on the cake was a conducted tour of North Korea’s arsenal of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, including its newest ballistic missile achievement Hwasong-18, which Kim personally undertook for the Russian military delegation. Petersburg chaired by President Vladimir Putin, needs to be seen as part of Russia’s message that it has returned with a bang on the centre stage of world politics, stresses M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. But Shoigu’s visit, coinciding with the Africa Summit in St. Shoigu’s meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un altogether elevates what would have passed as a friendly gesture by the Kremlin on the 70th anniversary of the armistice that led to a cessation of Korean War hostilities to an altogether different universe.Īt the most obvious level, it punctures a hole into the iron curtain of sanctions that the US built around North Korea. The three-day state visit on July 25-27 by Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, accompanied by a military delegation, to Pyongyang is the first-ever such high-level visit from Moscow in the post-Soviet era.
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