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Role. Host congressman henry cuellar, member of the appropriation committee. Washington journal, continues. Host a focus on the deepening ties between russia and north korea. Joining us now is victor cha and kim jongun met with Vladimir Putin last week. What did each want from the other from this meeting . Guest i was say at the first level is quite simple. Who needs ammunition for the war on ukraine and he is blowing through ammunition like nothing. The north Korean Leader needs putins fuel because they are coming out of a covid lockdown and so a simple transaction is food for arms. That is what brought these two together and its an unholy alliance. Host when was the last time they met and what was the significance of the timing and the length of this meeting was several days . Guest the last time they met was four years ago and 2019. The timing is related to the fact that kim is coming out of this covid lockdown and north korea is the only country that has not vaccinated its population during covid. They close their borders in january 2020 even close allies like china and russia and is completely shut down with no medicines. This is the urgency in the urgency from russia are weapons. There is a shortage of ammunition around the world and if there is one place where there is a stockpile of ammunitions is in north korea. Host its a Pretty Simple interaction, food and fuels for arms. Any concern about sharing the weird technology and the ability to create and depl we are going tooy leave this program here to keep our over 40year commitment to live coverage of congress. You can continue watching at cspan. Org. As we take you now to the floor of the u. S. House here on cspan. H. R. 1530, if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted in as fiveminute