Russian President Vladimir Putin touched down in the hermit kingdom of North Korea at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday local time and was greeted by “huge welcome banners and Russian flags” in his first visit since 2020.
He is scheduled to meet with Korth Korean despot Kim Jong Un later in the day:
Putin is scheduled to meet Kim later on Wednesday, when they will sign agreements designed to deepen a relationship that has strengthened significantly since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Kim, who met Putin in Vladivostok during a week-long visit to Russia last September, is one of the few world leaders to have voiced unequivocal support for the war, while Putin has described the pair as “comrades-in-arms” against western attempts to isolate them through sanctions.
What the two leaders lack in humanity, they try to make up for with pomp and circumstance:
Putin is officially in…
