Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, a top security official and former defense minister, arrived in North Korea on Friday, the second high-level contact between the two countries since Russian strongman Vladimir Putin held an hours-long phone conversation with American President Donald Trump this week.
Prior to Shoigu’s arrival in Pyongyang, the communist government of North Korea sent two delegations to Moscow, reportedly to discuss economic and health issues, respectively. The flurry of diplomacy appears to be an overture by communist dictator Kim Jong-un to continue cultivating a closer relationship with Russia – potentially at the expense of China – since welcoming Putin to Pyongyang last summer for the first time in two decades.
The major deliverable of Putin’s trip to Pyongyang was the
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