By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - Top military commanders, arms industry officials and diplomats accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSSEOUL - Top military commanders, arms industry officials and diplomats accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his trip to Russia, hinting at a potentially defence-heavy agenda for meetings with President Vladimir Putin.
Among other delegates were Marshal Pak Jong Chon, new head of the party's military political leadership; Pak Thae Song, a party secretary and chairman of a national space science and technology committee involved in a spy satellite program; and Jo Chun Ryong, director of the Munitions Industry Department, who assisted Kim during his recent visits to a munitions factory and missile plant.
Defence Minister Kang Sun Nam is also likely to have gone on the trip to Russia, Madden said, though his face was not clearly identified in the photos.Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui also shook hands with other officials in a receiving line at the train station. Kim's powerful sister and a senior party official, Kim Yo Jong, was seen standing beside the train, though it was unclear whether she boarded.Some officials handling economic affairs appear to be accompanying Kim, raising the possibility that he and Putin might discuss economic cooperation and food aid.
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