In the workshops and design offices, the DPRK leader listened and showed how the famous Su-35 and Su-57 fighters are assembled.
Photo: Personal archive
…When it was already night in Moscow and it had already dawned in Komsomolsk on the Amur, Kim Jong-un arrived here.
The distinguished guest, accompanied by the Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, visited two enterprises at once.
First of all, at the aviation plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin, and then in the production center of the parent company of the civil division of UAC Yakovlev.
In the workshops and design offices, the leader of the DPRK learned and showed how the famous Su-35 and Su-57 fighters are assembled.
And, of course, the Sukhoi Superjet New civil aircraft, which is an “import-substituted” version of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft.
According to news agencies and our sources, “Kim Jong-un and his companions (and in the delegation, apparently, there are also specialists familiar with this industry – AG) highly appreciated the capabilities of companies and modern technological capabilities after modernization and technical rearmament.”
At that time, the Yakovlev production center was testing the Sukhoi Superjet New aircraft and preparing for airfield tests of the aircraft with Russian PD-8 engines.
And the press service of the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory quotes the following statement by Mikhail Degtyarev: “North Korea has been a long-standing and reliable partner of Russia since the Second World War, when the armies of the USSR and the DPRK fought. together. against the Japanese militarists, and a little later they were allies in the Korean War.”
The head of the region also recalled that Kim Jong-un’s father, former DPRK leader Kim Jong-il, visited Khabarovsk and the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin in August 2002.
By the way, the exclusive photo we published was sent to me personally by Degtyarev. I really hope there will be an interview with the details of the DPRK leader’s visit.
