The Russian Federation and the DPRK retains silence: Moscow's military aircraft flew to Pyongyang - Bloomberg

Flightradar24 data show that the Air Force of Russia IL-62M with the RA-86559 onboard number flew from Moscow and arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday morning. The onboard number indicates that it is the same aircraft that Russia sent to North Korea in August after a visit to Pyongyan, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during which Kim Jong -in showed him a collection of the latest weapons of the DPRK. The plane returned to Moscow in two days.

North Korea's state media wrote nothing about the arrival of the aircraft or a visit to any delegation from Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not respond to the journalists' request for comments sent by e -mail. The NK News Specialized Service, which paid attention to a strange flight from Moscow to Pyongyan, stated that the "silence" may indicate that there was a delegation of military officials to negotiate weapons or military technology on board.

Flight may also be related to the discussion of the details of the planned trip of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov to the DPRK in October or with Putin's promise to make a visit to Kim Jong in Pyongyang. North Korea has virtually blocked the international air connection after the 2020 pandemic.

Arrival in Moscow of two flights in less than two months emphasizes the rapprochement between the DPRK and the Russian Federation against the background of strengthening the US Alliance-Japan-South Korea and sanctions imposed by Western countries against Russia. Recall that in South Korea are convinced that the DPRK and the Russian Federation are concluded "some military agreement".