The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), North Korea's sole governing party, has held a political bureau meeting to discuss North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's recent visit to Russia, noting the high significance of the trip in the current geopolitical situation, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
"The meeting heard a report on the result of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's official goodwill visit to Russia. Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee [CC], Kim Song Nam, department director of the CC, WPK, made a report on Kim Jong Un's visit to Russia," the ministry said in a statement, adding that the report "analyzed the significance" of Kim's visit to Russia.
The political bureau "highly appreciated" that the visit had achieved "the desired results" and brought the relations between the two countries to a "new strategic level" to meet the demand of the "new era" in the geopolitical situation, the statement read.
This was Kim's first visit to Russia since 2019. During the trip last week, the North Korean leader held talks with Putin at the Vostochny spaceport in Russia's Far East. Later that week, Kim met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and inspected Russian military aircraft.