North Korea – Russia Summit’s message to Trump’s USA

North Korea may still be the hermit kingdom but its leader Kim Jong Un is becoming quite the traveller.

Thursday’s meeting in Vladivostok with Russian President Vladimir Putin is the latest in a flush of summits, some more sumptuous than others – all aimed at easing his country’s sanctions-related economic woes and for his interlocutors, mitigating the dangers of an isolated, nuclear North Korea.

On sanctions, there isn’t much President Putin can offer Mr Kim; easing them wholesale is simply not in Moscow’s gift.

But as a state under sanctions itself, Russia’s view is that they do not change behaviour.

Meanwhile North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said peace and security on the Korean peninsula will entirely depend on the future U.S. attitude, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Friday.

Kim’s remarks are seen as keeping pressure on the U.S. to be “more flexible” in accepting Pyongyang’s demands to ease sanctions, compared to the U.S. stance during the collapsed second U.S.-North Korea summit in February in Hanoi, as he said earlier this month.

Via Sky News / Euronews