Putin, Kim gift each other guns, Russian space glove

MOSCOW, Sept 15 (Agencies): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived at a Russian industrial city to visit a military aviation factory on Friday, Russian agencies reported, following his summit with President Vladimir Putin.
Historic allies, Russia and North Korea are both under rafts of global sanctions-Moscow for its Ukraine conflict, Pyongyang for its nuclear tests-with Kim's visit sparking concern from Kyiv's allies over possible arms agreements.
Two days after meeting Putin at a spaceport, Kim's bullet-proof train pulled into Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's far east, where he was met with flowers, music, a dance group and ceremonial loaves of bread, the Interfax agency said.
Kim, who rarely leaves his country, is in the key Russian industrial centre to visit a military and civil aviation firm.
While Pyongyang wants Moscow's help to develop its missile programme, US officials and experts have said Russia is interested in buying North Korean ammunition to use in Ukraine.
TASS news agency reported Kim visited an aviation plant named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin-the first person in space.
TASS said the plant produces Russia's Sukhoi Su-35 and Su-57 fighter aircraft.
When Kim's train arrived in Russia on Tuesday-having left Pyongyang on Sunday-the North Korean leader was gifted a signed photo of Gagarin at the border.
Kim held talks with Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome on Wednesday.
Afterwards, Putin said on television that Kim "will visit factories where civilian and combat aviation equipment is produced" in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Meanwhile, Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gifted each other rifles when they met at a space centre in Russia week, the Kremlin said, while the Russian leader also presented his counterpart from Pyongyang with a glove from a cosmonaut's space suit.
Travelling onboard his armoured train from North Korea, Kim met with Putin on Wednesday at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region of the Russian Far East, where the two leaders greeted each other warmly with a 40-second handshake.
Asked whether the two had exchanged gifts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Putin gave Kim a high-quality Russian-made rifle and a glove from a spacesuit "that had been in space several times".
In turn, Kim gave Putin a North Korean-made gun, among other gifts, Peskov said.
The Russian president "gave [Kim] a rifle from our production of the highest quality. In return, he also received a North Korean-made rifle," Peskov said.