After Putin’s 2019 meeting with Kim Jong Un and Kim’s subsequent support of Russia’s Ukraine war, Russia and North Korea have grown closer, especially in military cooperation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday and hold talks with its leader, Kim Jong Un, the two countries said.
Below is a timeline of key events in relations between Russia and North Korea over the last two decades.July 2000
Putin visits North Korea in the first year of his presidency and holds a summit meeting with Kim Jong Il, the father of the North’s current leader. It is Putin’s first to North Korea.Oct. 14, 2006 – Dec. 22, 2017
Over more than 10 years, Russia votes for nine major United Nations Security Council resolutions penalizing North Korea, including measures banning weapons trade, transfers of missile technology and shipment of luxury goods to Pyongyang.April 25, 2019
Putin and Kim Jong Un meet in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East for their first summit.
