Crab dumplings, soup and sorbet: Putin and Kim dine on delicacies after two-hour meeting

There’s nothing like a high-stakes, globally-watched meeting of geopolitical heavyweights to whet the urge for food, particularly within the case of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s face-to-face talks with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un.

Following their two-hour talks on Wednesday at an area rocket launch middle in Russia’s far east, the leaders are resulting from dine collectively, with a smorgasbord of native delicacies reportedly on the menu.

Putin and Kim are to be supplied a menu that begins with a salad of duck, fig and nectarine adopted by Russian “pelmeni” dumplings made with Kamchatka crab — and then a White Amur fish soup and
a sorbet from sea buckthorn, in response to a Kremlin reporter cited by Reuters.

The principal course gives the leaders a selection of sturgeon with mushrooms and potatoes or an entrecote of marbled beef with grilled greens.  For dessert, pink bilberries from the taiga (Russia’s huge forested Siberia area) with pine nuts and condensed milk is on the menu.

White and pink wines from the Divnomorskoe Manor from southern Russia may even be supplied.

It’s not recognized the place the dinner will happen. Kim and Putin met on the Vostochny house rocket launch website Wednesday, inspecting the ability earlier than their respective delegations held talks on increasing bilateral cooperation between the 2 nations, earlier than Putin and Kim held non-public, one-to-one talks.

Russian media confirmed the leaders greeting one another outdoors the spaceport round 1,000 miles from Vladivostok, the place Kim initially arrived on Tuesday. The Kremlin also released a video showing the leaders touring the cosmodrome ahead of the talks.

Having spoken for over two hours, the talks ended with the Kremlin saying there could be no signed declaration following the meeting.

Little is presently recognized concerning the content material of the discussions, least of all these carried out one-to-one. Western officers have expressed their concern that Kim and Putin’s discussions would middle on arms and what weapons Russia may get hold of from North Korea that it may then use in its was towards Ukraine.

In return, officers and consultants believed, Moscow would supply heavily-sanctioned Pyongyang a lot wanted meals and monetary help, in addition to doable army know-how.

Asked concerning the West’s allegations on Wednesday, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov instructed Russian state media reporter Pavel Zarubin that “North Korea is our shut neighbor. And regardless of any ‘feedback’ or ‘shouts’ from the skin, we’ll construct relations with our neighbors in a means that’s useful to us and useful to our neighbors,” he stated.

“In any case, the total scope of relations implies dialogue and interplay in delicate areas, similar to army cooperation, change of opinions on essentially the most urgent points within the space of safety, this shall be performed as properly,” he added.

Peskov stated “the remainder of the questions are regarding our two nations, two sovereign nations and shouldn’t be some extent of concern for the third states. Our cooperation is being carried out for the sake of the prosperity of our two nations and not towards anybody else.”