North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu around a large-scale weapons exhibition in Pyongyang on Wednesday, showing off new drones resembling U.S. aircraft and massive missiles capable of striking Washington.

And experts assessed that the high-profile meeting with the general charged with overseeing the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine resembled a sales pitch, in a sign that the DPRK is looking to provide heavy weaponry for Russia’s war effort.

“This is a very big deal,” Yang Uk, a military expert at the Asan Institute told NK News, stating that “Kim Jong Un seems to be