North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boarded his private train Friday and headed back to Pyongyang after directing some harsh criticism at Washington during his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the U.S. negotiated in 'bad faith' when he met with President Donald Trump in Hanoi two months ago.
In this photo released by Press office of the administration of Primorsky Krai region, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks out from his train as he leaves Russia, at the main train station in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, April 26, 2019. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paid his respects at a ceremony honoring the war dead Friday before wrapping up a brief and generally successful visit to the Russian Far East for his first summit with President Vladimir Putin.
Before leaving Vladivostok, Kim visited a park near the headquarters of the Russian navy's Pacific Fleet for a wreath-laying ceremony that was held two hours later than expected. Kim also had lunch with the local governor and businesspeople on the outskirts of town before going to the main railway station.
He also told Putin the situation on the Korean Peninsula has reached a "critical point" and whether tensions resume will "entirely depend on the U.S. future attitude." North Korea has all along contended that it needs its nuclear arsenal to defend itself against what it sees as U.S. hostility and wants concrete reassurances of its safety -- including the removal of the American nuclear threat as an integral part of the denuclearization of the entire Korean Peninsula.
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