{"id":12531,"date":"2025-07-13T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2025-07-13T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:27:50","slug":"lavrov-meets-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/lavrov-meets-kim-jong-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov meets Kim Jong-un"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12526\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rus-nortgh-koria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Lavrov meets Kim Jong-un in the light of strengthening Moscow-Pyongyang relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that Sergey Lavrov, the country&#8217;s Foreign Minister, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the port city of Wonsan on Saturday, July 11. The meeting took place during Lavrov\u2019s official visit to North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A video of the meeting was posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry\u2019s official channel, but no details of the discussions have been released yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Lavrov had previously described the relationship between the two countries as \u201cinvincible brotherhood\u201d during a meeting with his Korean counterpart, a term seen as a sign of the growing rapprochement between Moscow and Pyongyang in the wake of the Ukraine war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>North Korea has reportedly deployed thousands of troops to support Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, a move that has raised international concerns about the expansion of new military axes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>After the trip, Lavrov will travel to China to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavrov meets Kim Jong-un in the light of strengthening Moscow-Pyongyang relations The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that Sergey Lavrov, the country&#8217;s Foreign Minister, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the port city of Wonsan on Saturday, July 11. The meeting took place during Lavrov\u2019s official visit to North Korea. A video of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12533,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/12533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}