Amid The Highlights Of Deploying Troops, North Korean Foreign Minister Visits Moscow To Meet Russian Foreign Minister

JAKARTA - North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui will hold a strategic consultation in Moscow with his counterpart from Russia, Sergei Lavrov.

A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said North Korean ministers were on their way to Moscow. As for the details of his talks with Lavrov, including the exact time, will be announced later.

In accordance with the agreement reached at the Russia-Korean summit in Pyongyang in June, the Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Choe Son Hui, arrived in Moscow on an official visit to hold a strategic consultation with Russia. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, "said Zakharova.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has no plans to meet with North Korean Foreign Minister.

The visit was a visit by the two ministers to Russia in the past six weeks, comes as the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new, dangerous chapter.

NATO and South Korea have expressed concern that North Korean troops will soon join Moscow.

The United States and NATO said several North Korean troops were in the Kursk region, Russia's border area where Ukrainian forces carried out massive attacks in August and controlled hundreds of square kilometers.

Several thousand other North Korean soldiers are heading there, the Pentagon said.

Russian government officials say Moscow has the right to develop its relationship with Pyongyang according to its wishes, including based on the provisions of the joint defense clause agreed earlier this year.