Photos show Kim Jong Un visiting sanctioned fighter jet plant in Russia, sitting in plane's cockpit
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Kim Jong Un continued his visit to Russia Friday by visiting a Russian fighter jet factory owned by a corporation that has been sanctioned by the U.S.
"We have shown one of our leading aircraft plants to the leader of [North Korea]," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, who reportedly accompanied Kim to the facility, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. "We are seeing potential for cooperation in the aircraft-making and other industries, which is particularly acute for solving our countries’ task of achieving technological sovereignty." Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced last June that it has sanctioned the United Aircraft Corporation in hopes of weakening "Russia’s ability to continue its aerial assault on Ukraine.