North Korea confirms Kim Jong Un's visit to Russia to meet Putin
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will soon visit Russia to hold his first summit with President Vladimir Putin, a state media reported on Tuesday, confirming Russia's annoucemnet.
Kim "will soon pay a visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation" of Putin, North Korea's official KCNA news service said.
"They will have talks during this visit," the brief dispatch added.
However, the venue was not disclosed by the state media.
They are expected to meet in the eastern Russian port of Vladivostok.
Last week, Russia said that Kim has accepted Putin's invitation and will Rusia in the second half of the April.
Putin has long expressed his readiness to meet with Kim.
The last summit between a Russian and North Korean head of state came in 2011, when Kim's father Kim Jong Il travelled to Siberia to meet Dmitry Medvedev, then Russia's president.