BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Sergey Shoigu, Russia's top security official, discussed "important matters" agreed by Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin in personal letters exchanged in the past weeks, the North's state-run media reported Wednesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia's top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang on Tuesday and discussed a "special military operation" in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine,

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba discussed Russia’s cooperation with North Korea and Iran, which poses a real threat not only to Europe but to the entire world,