North Korea’s Kim met Russia’s security official Shoigu, KCNA reports

PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday met with Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday.

Kim and Shoigu discussed cooperation plans for what Russia calls its “special military operation” in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, the report said, confirming earlier reports of the meeting by Russian media.

Plans to commemorate the “heroic feats” of North Korean soldiers in the operations in the Kursk region, a part of Russia which Ukrainian forces infiltrated last year, were also discussed during the meeting, KCNA said.

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North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and sappers to the region to help rebuild it after the Ukrainian incursion that North Korean troops helped Moscow repel this year, Shoigu was cited as saying by the Russian state news agency TASS on Tuesday.

His visit to Pyongyang and meeting with Kim came nearly two weeks after the last meeting with the leader of the reclusive state on June 4.