# Kim meets Putin at Vostochny

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 13 September 2023 [Kim Jong Un](/people/kim-jong-un) met [Vladimir Putin](/people/vladimir-putin) at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

## Context

Shell-transfer volumes later alleged are contested. Vladimir Putin is the counterpart.

Vostochny 13 September 2023; treaty June 2024. Keep dates. Keep Kim meets Putin at Vostochny on 2023-09-13 separate from neighbouring nuclear-test, camp, Vostochny, treaty, and troop-despatch instruments.

The President of the State Affairs Commission commands the armed forces and signs treaties.

## Evidence and sources

Presidency of Russia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: A 13 September 2023 meeting at Vostochny recorded by the Kremlin and independently.

Not established: A unique million-shell figure from that day unless a named Panel of Experts or US/ROK instrument is cited as an estimate on another row.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Putin hosted. This page does not invent a shell ledger from the tarmac.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Kim meets Putin at Vostochny, not a later speech about Kim meets Putin at Vostochny.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Kim meets Putin at Vostochny on 2023-09-13 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of Russia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Kim meets Putin at Vostochny into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He attended and dealt. Putin hosted. This page does not invent a shell ledger from the tarmac. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kim Jong-un: https://factrail.ai/people/kim-jong-un

## Drivers

- Ukraine war (Crimea–Donbas–2022+): https://factrail.ai/drivers/ukraine-war

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-kim-meet-vostochny-cosmodrome-2023-09-13/
- http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/72230

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kp-vostochny-2023