Putin: Russia will help North Korea in space exploration and rocket construction

When asked about cooperation with North Korea in space, Vladimir Putin emphasized that this is the very reason why they came to Vostochny Cosmodrome.

"The North Korean leadership is interested in rocket construction, they are also trying to develop space technologies," Putin said.

Referring to the issue of potential military-technical cooperation with North Korea, Vladimir Putin also said that "they will discuss all issues in no particular hurry" because "they have time".

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un signed the book of honored guests of the Vostochny Cosmodrome

🚀 Kim Jong Un showed visible interest in rocket technology while inspecting key facilities at the Vostochny Cosmodrome with Vladimir Putin

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⚡️ Last night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 10 cruise missiles at the Sevastopol Ship Repair Plant and 3 launched unmanned boats at a detachment of Black Sea Fleet ships on a sea crossing, the Russian MoD says

Russian air defense systems shot down seven cruise missiles. The patrol ship Vasily Bykov destroyed all unmanned boats. Two ships under repair were damaged by enemy cruise missiles.

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❗️🇷🇺🇰🇵 Talks between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un with participation of delegations started

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🗣 "Instead of 12 posture locations there are no less than 18 outposts in addition to Camp Lemonnier"

The US Department of Defense has lied to Congress about its shady activities in Africa, Tunde Osazua, peace campaigner, told Sputnik

Osazua explained that General Michael Langley, commander of the US Africa Command, had briefed Congress on the military's facilities in Africa, including the 'enduring forward operating sites' at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti and the Cat Hill air base on Ascension Island, the tiny British South Atlantic colony, along with 12 other "posture locations".

Experts say that he misled Congress, that AFRICOM's chief basically lied about the size and the scope of the US presence on the African continent, Osazua said.

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⚡Migration Service officers came to the head of Sputnik Moldova, Vitaly Denisov, put him in a car and took him to the airport on the first flight with a deportation order, without allowing him to pack his things and take his pets with him

The Russian Ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov was informed that Vitaly was banned from entering Moldova for 10 years.

Commenting on the outrageous expulsion of a journalist who has all the necessary permits to work in the country, Dmitry Kiselev, general director of Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency (Sputnik’s parent organization), said that "the destructive policy of the Moldovan authorities exceeds all reasonable limits of interstate relations.''

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Russian-Korean negotiations take place at the Vostochny Cosmodrome

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⚡ Kim Jong Un calls relations with Russia North Korea's first priority

North Korea will always be together with Russia in fight against imperialism, Kim Jong Un added.

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⚡ Vladimir Putin at meeting with Kim Jong Un: Dear Chairman. I am very happy to see you again and host you in Russia. This time we're meeting, as I promised, at our new cosmodrome, the Vostochny Сosmodrome

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🤝 Vladimir Putin welcomes North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at Vostochny Cosmodrome

✒️ The glory of Russia, the birthplace of the first space explorers, will be immortal

This is the innoscription left by the leader of North Korea in the book of honored guests of the Vostochny Cosmodrome

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⚡ According to the Moldovan authorities, he must leave the country as he is a person posing a threat to national security, the head of Sputnik Moldova reported

📹 Vladimir Putin, during talks with his North Korean counterpart, outlined the main topics that need to be discussed by the leaders of the two countries

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💬 Russia has now risen up in a holy battle to defend its state sovereignty

North Korea supports and has always supported the decisions of President Putin and the Russian government, Kim Jong Un stated

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 North Korea will always be together with Russia in fight against imperialism, Kim Jong Un said during talks with Vladimir Putin

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Negotiations between Putin and Kim Jong Un in an expanded format have ended, a one-on-one meeting is underway, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

Cooperation between Russia and North Korea is carried out for the benefit of the peoples of the two countries and not against anyone, Peskov added.

Moscow sees no transparency from Tokyo on the issue of the quality of water discharged from Fukushima - Russian Foreign Ministry

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