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We begin with news of a potential meeting between two of washingtons biggest geopolitical rivals. Kim jongun may be heading to russia where he would meet face to fmeet facetoface with President Putin. Kylie, first to you. How does the u. S. View this meeting . Sounds troublesome. Well, listen. A spokesperson said that the u. S. Is urging north korea to cease negotiations. Any Arms Negotiations with russia. This comes as xis also saying the u. S. Has information that its kim jongun who is expecting to have a meeting to engage with President Putin in russia. Of course, this comes as we have heard from u. S. Officials over the last week or so that there are active pursuits between north korea and russia now of an additional arms deal between the two countries. W we dont know exactly when this meeting between putin and kim jongun could come, but New York Times which first reported on the possibility of this engagement is that their reporting is that its supposed to happen this month. Weve
Travelled by armoured train, he is paranoid about security and so trips are fraught with dangers and it is possible that that is the reason that the us decided to release this, that the us decided to release this, that they hope to spook kim jong un by making this meeting so public and putting the eyes of the world on him and on this travel, that he will decide it is just too dangerous to go and by thwarting the meeting they probably hope they can thwart the arms deal. The us priority in all this right now seems to be to stop these weapons getting to the front line, but here in south korea, the concern runs deeper, it is want what does this mean for future north korea russia cooperation . Russia is desperate and it is expected that mr kim would put a high price on any weapons he would sell the russian leader, the things that people here worry about could this mean increased military cooperation between north korea and russia, would desee Military Drills like the us, south korea and jap
That they hope to spook kim jong un by making this meeting so public and putting the eyes of the world on him and on this travel, that he will decide it is just too dangerous to go, and by thwarting the meeting they probably hope they can thwart the arms deal. The us priority in this right now seems to be to stop these weapons getting to the front line of ukraine. But here in south korea the concerns run much deeper. It is, what does this mean for the future of russian and korean cooperation . Russia is desperate and it is expected that kim jong un would put a high price on any weapons he would sell the russian leader. The things he will broadly worry about are, could this increase Military Cooperation in this region between north korea and russia . Could we see Military Drills between the two sides . Another fear is that kim jong un might ask for russian weapons at some point far in the future when north korea needs them most. So by far the biggest worry is if he could demand from Vla