(31 May 2018) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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Pyongyang - 31 May 2018
1. Pyongyang airport
2. Sign reading (Korean) "Pyongyang" on airport building
3. Russian plane landing at Pyongyang airport
4. Cutaway media
5. Russian plane taxiing on tarmac
6. Wide of airport control
7. North Korea Vice Foreign Minister Sin Hong Chol and Russian embassy officials waiting on tarmac for Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to get out plane
8. Lavrov walking down steps from plane and shaking hands with Sin
9. Various of Lavrov on tarmac greeting officials and then his motorcade driving out of airport
10. Various of Lavrov at giant statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill attending laying of a basket of flowers below the statues
11. Various of Lavrov attending wreath laying at the Liberation Tower which commemorates Russian soldiers who entered Korea at the end of the Japanese occupation
12. Wide pan of Lavrov walking up and shaking hands with North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and then Sin and other North Korean officials
13. Wide of Lavrov walking along with Ri
14. Various of Lavrov sitting down at meeting with Ri
STORYLINE:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho on Thursday in Pyongyang, a trip seen as an attempt by Moscow to make its voice heard in its neighbour state's new push for diplomacy.
Lavrov's visit comes ahead of a planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who has also made recent diplomatic overtures to Seoul and Beijing.
After his arrival, Lavrov met with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and others at an assembly hall in the capital.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement earlier they would discuss bilateral issues as well as the overall situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Details of Lavrov's schedule in Pyongyang were not disclosed.
Despite having a border with the North and relatively cordial relations that President Vladimir Putin has seemed to want to develop further, Russia has so far remained largely on the sidelines as Kim has emerged onto the world stage this year.
Kim has already met twice with China's President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
One of Kim's top lieutenants, former intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol, is now in New York to discuss with US officials the agenda for the summit planned in Singapore on or around June 12.
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