North Korean leader takes off hat, bows head while military band plays
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un met in Vladivostok, Russia on April 25, 2019.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paid his respects at a ceremony honouring the war dead Friday to wrap up a brief and generally successful visit to the Russian Far East for his first summit with President Vladimir Putin.
Following their talks on Thursday, Putin indicated that he might be willing to play a bigger role in breaking the stalemate over Washington’s push for denuclearization and Kim’s demands for sanctions relief. The agency said Putin credited Kim’s diplomatic initiatives for stabilizing the situation surrounding the peninsula and accepted Kim’s invitation to visit North Korea at a “convenient time.”
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