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Talks held between President of State Affairs Kim Jong Un and President Putin

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, had talks with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, on September 13.
Before the talks, Kim Jong Un and Putin had a picture taken against the national flags of the DPRK and Russia.
The talks were held between the respected Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the WPK and President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation.
Present at the talks on the Korean side were Choe Son Hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK; Marshal of the Korean People's Army Pak Jong Chon; Kang Sun Nam, Minister of National Defence of the DPRK; O Su Yong and Pak Thae Song, Secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK; and Im Chon Il, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Present there on the Russian side were Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Zenis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade; Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defence; Alexei Oberchuk, Deputy Prime Minister; Yuri Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far East Federal Region, and other leading officials, officials concerned and Alexander Matsegora, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the DPRK.
At the talks President Putin warmly welcomed the respected Kim Jong Un who visited Russia again in the significant year marking the 75th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the DPRK and expressed the pleasure at his meeting with Kim Jong Un at the "Vostochnyy" Cosmodrome.
Kim Jong Un expressed thanks to Putin once again for having invited the DPRK delegation at the important time and accorded warm hospitality to it since the beginning of the visit and said he is pleased to have more detailed and profound understanding of the reality and future of the space power Russia at the "Vostochnyy" Cosmodrome to which Putin is paying deep attention.
He also said it is a consistent stand of the DPRK government to attach greatest importance to the DPRK-Russia relations and invariably develop the tradition of friendship with deep root. And he expressed the belief that the recent visit would be a significant occasion of developing the cooperative relations between the two countries onto a new height.
The supreme leaders discussed the issue on intensifying the many-sided exchange and cooperation in different fields including high-level visits between the two countries to further consolidate friendship, solidarity and cooperative relations and increase the mutual confidence.
At the talks, there were exchanged wide-ranging and profound opinions on important issues of mutual concern and an issue was agreed on promoting the welfare of the two peoples and constantly expanding the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations with joint efforts.
The plenary talks were followed by tete-a-tete talks between Comrade Kim Jong Un and President Putin.
Kim Jong Un highly appreciated that the relations between the DPRK and Russia are developing on good terms according to the aspiration and desire of the two peoples on the principle of friendship, good-neighbour relationship and mutual respect.
The supreme leaders of the DPRK and Russia shared deep opinions on the remarkable successes and constructive experience of cooperation gained in all fields of politics, the economy, the military affairs and culture for attaining the strategic goals of building a powerful state and on the orientation of future development for national prosperity and well-being of the two peoples.
They also had a heart-to-heart talk about the crucial issues and immediate items of cooperation arising in having closer strategic and tactical collaboration between the two countries and rendering a powerful support and solidarity to each other on the joint front for frustrating the military threats, provocations, high-handedness and arbitrariness of the imperialists to deprive humanity of their independence, progress and peaceful life so as to defend the sovereignty, development and interests of the state, peace and security of the region and the world, and international justice with concerted efforts, and reached a satisfactory agreement and consensus of views.