{"id":58400,"date":"2023-09-15T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/15\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-meeting-weapons-rifle-glove-space-suit-gifts"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:03:11","slug":"putin-and-kim-jong-un-exchange-rifles-as-north-korean-leader-continues-russia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58400","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Kim Jong-un exchange rifles as North Korean leader continues Russia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president also gave Kim at meeting the gift of a \u2018glove from a space suit that has been to space\u2019 amid warnings from US and South Korea about any weapons deal<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un has visited a factory that builds advanced fighter jets, as his tour of Russia moves into its third day and the Kremlin revealed he and Vladimir Putin had exchanged gifts of rifles during their summit this week.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after meeting Putin at a space base in Russia\u2019s far east, where they discussed satellite technology and \u2013 possibly \u2013 a deal to provide North Korean arms for the war in Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/pink-leather-armchairs-and-bomb-proof-floors-inside-kim-jong-uns-armoured-train\">Kim\u2019s armoured train <\/a>arrived in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where he visited a factory that makes Russia\u2019s most modern fighter jets, Russian news agencies reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/15\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-meeting-weapons-rifle-glove-space-suit-gifts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president also gave Kim at meeting the gift of a \u2018glove from a space suit that has been to space\u2019 amid warnings from US and South Korea about any weapons dealKim Jong-un has visited a factory that builds advanced fighter jets, as his tour of Ru&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,421,40,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58400\/revisions\/58401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}