North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who is continuing his visit to Russia, arrived in the morning in Kamshamolsk on the Amur, in the Russian Far East, where he will tour an aircraft factory, Russian news agencies reported.

“Kim Jong Un arrived by train at the Kamshamolsk railway station on the Amur,” Russian state news agency TASS said, adding that the North Korean leader would transfer to an “aeronautical factory.” According to the Interfax agency, this factory produces “military and civilian equipment”.

The day before Wednesday, in his first trip abroad since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic, the North Korean leader met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vastochni Cosmodrome, before official talks lasting more than two hours were held, with the aim of strengthening relations between the two states, especially at the military level.

Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia, which began on Tuesday, will last “several more days,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, declining to be more specific.

Mr Putin said Mr Kim would go to Kamchamolsk on the Amur to tour facilities where equipment for civilian and military aircraft is produced and then to Vladivostok, where he had also been in 2019, to watch a “demonstration” of his fleet Pacific of the Russian Navy.