Kim Jong-un has pledged to support all of Russia’s decisions as he met Vladimir Putin during a rare trip outside North Korea.
Speaking at Russia’s Vostochny cosmodrome, Kim said “Russia has risen to a sacred fight to protect its sovereignty and security. We will always support the decisions of President Putin and the Russian leadership … and we will be together in the fight against imperialism.”
Putin welcomed Kim, saying: “We, of course, need to talk about questions of economic cooperation and questions of a humanitarian nature. We have a lot of questions.” The US has suggested that Russia is seeking North Korean military hardware to aid in the invasion of Ukraine. North Korea has previously denied supplying weapons to Moscow.
A Kremlin spokesperson said the relationship between Russia and North Korea is not aimed at other countries, and should not be a worry for third countries. North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea this morning as a demonstration of strength while Kim was out of the country. Japan has protested.
Putin and Kim have now begun face-to-face talks, which Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said would involve dialogue and cooperation in sensitive spheres, including the military.
Reuters is carrying that Kim Jong-un quote in full now, which was given in translation. He told his host Vladimir Putin:
I am deeply convinced that the heroic Russian army and people will brilliantly inherit the tradition of victory, confidently demonstrate invaluable dignity and honour on the fronts of the special military operation.
The Russian army and people will certainly win a great victory in the sacred struggle for the punishment of a great evil that claims hegemony and feeds an expansionist illusion.
Special military operation is the preferred term by Russian authorities for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022.
Reuters reports that a Kremlin spokseperson has confirmed that the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un will conclude today. The location of the event, and even whether it would be happening at all, have been shrouded in mystery for much of the week.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told Russian president Vladimir Putin via a translator on Wednesday that he was sure that the Russian army and people would triumph against “evil”.
As well as offering a toast to Putin’s health, Kim also said the pair had agreed on a further deepening of strategic cooperation.
According to Reuters, Putin in turn proposed a toast for strengthening friendship and the wellbeing between the people of the two nations.
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that an 81-year-old woman has been taken to hospital with injuries after a Russian attack on Odradokamyanka in the Kherson region.
Ukraine has made “great strides” to join the EU since being granted candidate status in 2022, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has said, offering the bloc’s enduring support.
She was addressing the European parliament as the bloc considers whether to grant a formal start of membership negotiations.
“We know this is not an easy road,” Reuters reports Von der Leyen said. “Accession is merit-based. It takes hard work and leadership. But there is already a lot of progress. We have seen the great strides Ukraine has already made since.”
“Our support to Ukraine will endure,” she said in her annual policy speech.
Von der Leyen promised the bloc would extend special protections granted to Ukrainian citizens who fled Russia’s war, and lawmakers gave a standing ovation as she recounted the fate of Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian writer and activist killed after having sent her son to safety in Prague.
Here are some more of the images being released from the summit in Russia between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.
Andriy Yusov, a Ukrainian military spy agency official, said on Wednesday that an overnight attack on the port of Sevastopol, home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet in occupied Crimea, had struck a large Russian landing ship and a submarine.
Reuters reports Yusov told it “We confirm a large landing vessel and submarine were hit. We do not comment on the means (used) for the strike.”
On its Telegram channel, Tass has reported that the face-to-face meeting between Putin and Kim has now ended.
The Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi will visit China for talks on resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
Reuters reports a spokesperson at the foreign ministry confirmed that China’s special envoy for Eurasian affairs Li Hui will meet with Zuppi.
The Vatican had said on Tuesday that Zuppi will be in China from Wednesday to Friday as part of a diplomatic push to facilitate peace in Ukraine.
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has also been giving a press conference this morning, and in it she lambasted Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Reuters reports she accused Armenia of making “unacceptable and harmful” statements that were damaging to the prospects for a peace settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
She said the Russian foreign ministry has also protested to Azerbaijan over comments it made about the weekend regional elections held in areas of Ukraine which are claimed to be annexed by Moscow. Kyiv has declared the elections a sham.
Here is the video clip of Kim Jong-un telling Russia’s president Vladimir Putin that North Korea supports Russia’s “sacred battle with the west”.
It is worth noting that we may not actually get any kind of formal joint declaration or read out after the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un today. RIA’s unofficial Telegram channel for its Kremlin pool journalists points out that “The DPRK, Russia, and China do not have such a procedure as the mandatory release of a joint document after a summit.”
Hungary has agreed with Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria that the four countries would impose national bans on Ukrainian grains imports if the EU does not extend an existing ban that expires on 15 September, Hungary’s farm minister said on Wednesday.
Reuters reports the minister of agriculture, István Nagy, saying in a Facebook post that the ban would apply to a wider range of Ukrainian products than the current measures.
Some eastern European countries have complained that Ukraine’s inability to export goods through its Black Sea ports has led to a flooding of local markets with cheap Ukrainian produce, which is affecting their own agricultural sectors.
Kim Jong-un has pledged to support all of Russia’s decisions as he met Vladimir Putin during a rare trip outside North Korea.
Speaking at Russia’s Vostochny cosmodrome, Kim said “Russia has risen to a sacred fight to protect its sovereignty and security. We will always support the decisions of President Putin and the Russian leadership … and we will be together in the fight against imperialism.”
Putin welcomed Kim, saying: “We, of course, need to talk about questions of economic cooperation and questions of a humanitarian nature. We have a lot of questions.” The US has suggested that Russia is seeking North Korean military hardware to aid in the invasion of Ukraine. North Korea has previously denied supplying weapons to Moscow.
A Kremlin spokesperson said the relationship between Russia and North Korea is not aimed at other countries, and should not be a worry for third countries. North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea this morning as a demonstration of strength while Kim was out of the country. Japan has protested.
Putin and Kim have now begun face-to-face talks, which Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said would involve dialogue and cooperation in sensitive spheres, including the military.
Reuters has just published a full transcript of the remarks made by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in front of the media at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The Russian president welcomed North Korea’s leader saying:
Dear Mr Chairman, I am very glad to see and welcome you again in Russia – this time, as we agreed, at our Vostochny cosmodrome.
We are proud of how this sector is developing here, and this is our new facility. I hope both you and your colleagues find this interesting.
Our meeting is taking place at a very special time, after all. Most recently, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea celebrated 75 years of its creation and foundation. Seventy-five years of establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. Let me remind you that it was our country that was the first to recognise the sovereign independent state – the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Then very soon we will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the War of independence and the victory of the Korean people in this war. This is a landmark date, because our country also helped our friends in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to fight for this independence.
We, of course, need to talk about questions of economic cooperation and questions of a humanitarian nature. We have a lot of questions. I want to say that I am very glad to see you. Thank you for accepting the invitation and coming to Russia.
Kim’s response was as follows:
I express my gratitude to you for paying such attention to our visit to Russia.
The Soviet Union played a very big role in the liberation of our country. Our friendship has deep roots, and now relations with the Russian Federation are the first priority for our country I am sure that our meeting will be the next step to take relations to a new level.
Russia has risen to a sacred fight to protect its sovereignty and security … against the hegemonic forces. We will always support the decisions of President Putin and the Russian leadership … and we will be together in the fight against imperialism.
Reuters also notes that Kim wrote in a visitor book at the centre: “The glory to Russia, which gave birth to the first space conquerors, will be immortal.”
On the ground in Ukraine, Suspilne has this round-up of overnight news, posting to Telegram to report:
At night, the Russian army attacked Odeshchyna with drones: there is damage to the port and civil infrastructure. Seven people were injured.
Air defence forces destroyed 32 Shahed drones out of 44 launched. Russian troops attacked Odeshchyna and Sumy region with them at night.
Defence forces have partial success near Klishchiivka in the Bakhmut direction, said the spokesperson of the general staff.
In the last 24 hours three people were killed and three others were injured as a result of shelling by the Russian Federation in Donetsk region. Four people were injured in Kherson region. One person was injured in Zaporizhzhia.
Here are a couple more of the official images being released to the press of Kim Jong-un’s visit to meet Vladimir Putin today.
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