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Anton Sokolin
Anton Sokolin is the data correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Reuters, TASS and the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA).
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toured a fighter jet factory in the Russian Far East on Friday, the Russian government has announced, stating that the two sides “see potential” for cooperation in aircraft manufacturing.
Kim visited the “the assembly facility of fighter aircraft and the final assembly shop of the Su-35 aircraft” as well as the manufacturing facility of “the fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft,” the Russian government said Friday.