Putin meets with North Korean Foreign Minister...Choi Sun-hee and Kim Jong-un deliver greetings.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sun-hee met unannounced in Moscow on the 4th, local time, amid growing concerns over military cooperation between North Korea and Russia due to North Korea's dispatch.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin welcomed North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sun-hee, who is on a working visit to Russia at the Kremlin.

Putin noted that the two met on National Unity Day, a Russian holiday, and Foreign Minister Choi responded by conveying Kim Jong-un's "deeply young, warm and friendly greetings."

Earlier, the Kremlin said last week that Putin had no plans to meet with Foreign Minister Choi.

Foreign Minister Choi Sun-hee has visited Russia since the 29th of last month, and on the 1st, he held a "strategic dialogue" with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to show off the close ties between the two countries.