North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is predicted to journey to Russia inside the month to fulfill with Vladimir Putin to debate the sale of weapons, US officers have mentioned.

The rumoured discussions observe a go to from a Russian delegation to North Korea final month, led by defence minister Sergei Shoigu, throughout which it's believed Putin’s confidante tried to steer his hosts to promote artillery ammunition to Russia.

The official mentioned the US isn’t certain precisely the place or when the assembly would happen, however the Pacific port metropolis of Vladivostok can be a probable chance given its relative proximity to North Korea.

The White House reported final week that it had intelligence indicating that Putin and Kim swapped letters following Shoigu's go to.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby mentioned the letters have been “more at the surface level” however that Russian and North Korean talks on a weapons sale have been advancing.

National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson claimed that Kim Jong-un believes these discussions would proceed.

She mentioned: “We have information that Kim Jong Un expects these discussions to continue, to include leader-level diplomatic engagement in Russia.”

She added that the US is urging North Korea “to cease its arms negotiations with Russia and abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia”.

Only Iran, one other anti-Western ally of Russia, is understood to be supplying the Kremlin with army tools for its “special military operation” in Ukraine - an accusation it routinely denies regardless of a surfeit of proof on the contrary.