For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Follow us on Facebook ☛ http://me.lt/9P8MUn<br /><br />North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is visiting Russia for the first time in nearly a decade. His tour of the country's Far East began with crowds of cheering people greeting him at Bureya railway station in Amur province. Here's that story.<br /><br />North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is touring Russia's Far East in preparation for talks with President Dmitry Medvedev next week.<br /><br />Russian television showed pictures of the reclusive leader exiting a train in Bureya, in the Amur region, to crowds of cheering people waving Russian flags.<br /><br />Kim arrived in Russia on Saturday on a special armoured train, and met the Kremlin's regional envoy, Viktor Ishayev, as well as several local officials, according to Interfax news agency.<br /><br />The North Korean leader attended an in-depth tour of the Bureyskaya hydro-electric power station, fuelling speculation that the two countries could discuss energy cooperation, reported South Korean news agency Yonhap Seoul.<br /><br />Kim has sought help from regional powers in recent months for his impoverished nation, struggling with recent floods and economic sanctions.<br /><br />After reportedly securing Chinese food aid and investment in May, he is also likely to ask Russia for economic support.<br /><br />He is expected to hold talks with Medvedev in Ulan-Ude, near Lake Baikal on Tuesday, although the Kremlin's terse statement on Saturday did not say when or where the meeting would take place.<br /><br />The energy talks may include relaunching plans to construct a pipeline to supply natural gas from the Russian Far East to South Korea, via North Korea, which could earn Pyongyang an estimated $500 million a year in handling charges.<br /><br />Kim's trip to Russia, his first since 2002, comes weeks after rare talks between Pyongyang and Washington on the resumption of stalled negotiations to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program me...
