Choe Ryong-hae, reportedly North Korea’s number two, concluded meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week. Choe, who is acting as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will visit Khabarovsk and Vladivostok in addition to Moscow on his seven-day visit to Russia.

According to NK News, North Korean media quoted Putin as describing a “long-standing tradition of friendship and cooperation” between Moscow and Pyongyang during his meeting with Choe. Choe came bearing a letter to Putin from Kim Jong-un. According to Xinhua, the letter indicated Kim’s “readiness to develop our bilateral ties and cooperate in resolving the problems which persist on the Korean Peninsula.”

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