TIL Desk/World/Vladivostok/ Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held their first ever summit here on Thursday, with the two nations expressing hope that the historic meeting will revive the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The summit at the ar Eastern Federal University is the first high-level meeting between the two nations since 2011, when Kim’s late father, Kim Jong-il, met the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in eastern Siberia. This is also the first time that Putin and Kim Jong-un is coming face-to-face.
Putin said he believed Kim Jong-un’s visit would help “our bilateral relations and will help us to understand the ways we can help to settle the situation on the Korean peninsula, what can be done together, what Russia can do to support the positive processes that are taking their place now”.
