Russia’s Sergei Shoigu Visits North Korea Amid Growing Military Alliance, Set to Meet Kim Jong Un:

The TASS news agency claims in a report from Friday that the Kremlin’s chief security officer, Sergei Shoigu, has arrived in North Korea and plans to meet head of state, Kim Jung Un. This comes amid reports of increasing cooperation in security between the two countries.

According to TASS’s report, there are no additional details on what has occurred or what is planned, while state media from North Korea have yet to report on Shoigu’s presence in the country.

He previously traveled to Pyongyang while serving as the defense minister until May in preparation for North Korea’s deployment of troops to join Russia’s fight against Ukraine.

Officials from the US and Southeast Asian nations have noted that North Korea has sent over ten thousand soldiers into the Kursk region in the east of Russia, as well as large quantities of heavy artillery and missiles which has resulted in their rapid defeat.

It is believed North Korea has received military, civilian, and economic aid in return from Moscow.

Neither of the capital cities have formally pled from Pyongyang and Moscow have claimed to have put into motion their strategy partnership deal from last June which incorporates a mutual defense agreement during a joint statement made by President Kim and Vladimir Putin.