North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Thursday during a meeting with Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov that he wants to build “future-oriented” relations with Russia, the official KCNA news agency reported, AFP writes.

Sergei Lavrov visited the capital of North Korea for a two-day visit ahead of a possible visit by President Vladimir Putin to the country, which supports Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Kim Jong-un said the goal of the ruling Workers’ Party and government is to “develop a stable, forward-looking and far-reaching plan for relations between the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and Russia,” KCNA reported. .

Russia’s foreign minister on Thursday condemned the “dangerous” military policy of the United States and its allies toward North Korea, while hailing the strengthening of relations between Moscow and Pyongyang.

“Like our North Korean friends, we are terribly concerned about the intensification of US, Japanese, and South Korean military activities in the region, as well as Washington’s policy,” the Russian minister said at a press conference, quoted. Russian agencies.

In his opinion, the Americans are installing “strategic infrastructure, including nuclear elements” there.

“We oppose this non-constructive and dangerous line,” Serhii Lavrov added.

Faced with a record series of weapons tests by Pyongyang this year, Seoul has taken steps to strengthen its alliance with the United States and joined a trilateral defense pact that also includes Japan.

Seoul and Washington held joint military exercises, and in July a US nuclear-powered submarine called into a South Korean port for the first time in a decade.

According to South Korean media, a US B-52 bomber capable of carrying a nuclear payload is currently stationed about a hundred kilometers south of Seoul for trilateral exercises scheduled for this weekend.

The meeting in mid-September in the Russian Far East between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin made it possible to strengthen relations between Moscow and Pyongyang, Sergei Lavrov said.

“After this historic summit (…) we can say with confidence that the relations” between the two countries “reached a new and strategic qualitative level,” the Russian minister congratulated on the occasion of the meeting with his North Korean counterpart Choe. Song Hui, who is quoted by Russian agencies.