North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia in his heavily armoured private train ahead of a meeting with Vladimir Putin – a rare meeting between the two leaders – as Moscow seeks supplies of weapons and ammunition to feed its war machine in Ukraine.
Mr Kim emerged to the strains of a military band and stepped onto a red carpet in Khasan, the main rail gateway to Russia's far east, to meet a number of Russian officials before moving on. There has been no confirmation of where the summit with Mr Putin is to be held, but the route of Mr Kim’s train suggested he would not visit the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, where Mr Putin was attending an economic conference, and which was the location of the only previous meeting between the two leaders in 2019.
