Following his visit to North Korea, Putin is scheduled to travel to Hanoi in a display of Communist-governed Vietnam’s ties to Russia that is likely to rankle the United States.
Putin’s trip to North Korea will have a “very eventful” agenda, his aide Yuri Ushakov said during a press conference Monday.
One image was of a grandstand being constructed on the eastern side of Kim Il Sung Square, the site where all major parades in North Korea are held.
Putin arrives in North Korea on Tuesday, June 18.
But Russia’s apparent increasing reliance on North Korea and rising frictions with the West appear to have shifted that dynamic.
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