(26 Jun 2024)
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Vladivostok, Russia - 26 June 2024
1. Visitors at North Korean trade show
2. Various of fair participant selling clothes
3. T-shirt reading "See you in Pyongyang" (English)
4. Various of products on display
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Ok Ran, fair participant from North Korea:
"The basic component is ceramics. We used far-infrared radiation. When we apply heat the temperature goes up and the far-infrared radiation gets stronger. By doing that you can release bodily waste that has been accumulated in your feet. It lightens your body and vitalises your cells, which makes your body healthier."
6. Ri advertising massagers
7. Visitors
8. Various of participant playing bayan
9. Participant showing paintings to visitor, visitor UPSOUND (Russian): "She doesn't understand me, (I'm asking) how much it costs?"
10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Chol Gu, chairman of North Korea's Committee for the Promotion of International Trade:
"The Pyongyang meeting between DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which shocked the world and left new light in the great relations between the two countries, gave birth to the strongest comprehensive strategic partnership between DPRK and Russia. This is a meaningful event, which takes place during a turbulent period after the two countries laid solid foundations for the 100-year plan and expanded our relations."
11. Participants from North Korea applauding
12. Pin depicting current and former leaders of North Korea
13. Russian band performing at fair opening
14. Spectators watching opening ceremony
15. Various of North Korean participants selling food products
16. Collagen soap
17. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Shin Myong Hee, fair participant from North Korea:
"It (ginseng) improves your immune system, prevents aging. For men it will improve your vitality. It also prevents cancer. Stomach cancer, liver cancer and so on. It is a health food."
18. Shin advertising ginseng items
19. Various of participants selling products to visitors
20. Various of visitor and participant communicating on price
21. Ginseng soap
22. North Korean participants selling vases
STORYLINE:
The first ever trade show exhibiting "the achievements of the North Korean economy” opened in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday, a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin met his North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang.
More than 70 companies from North Korea displayed their products, including food, clothes, health products, craftwork and musical instruments.
Local authorities organising the four-day fair say it is the first event of its kind.
Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a new partnership deal on 19 June that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country is attacked, as both face escalating standoffs with the West.
The agreement was signed during Putin's first visit to North Korea in 24 years.
The summit between Kim and Putin came as the U.S. and its allies expressed growing concern over a possible arms arrangement in which Pyongyang provides Moscow with badly needed munitions for the conflict in Ukraine, in exchange for economic assistance and technology transfers that could enhance the threat posed by Kim’s nuclear weapons and missile program.
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