Vladimir Putin praises Trump’s summit and invites Kim Jong-un to Russia
The Russian president hopes Kim will go to Russia in September; Russia and North Korea share a border and have a history of long-standing ties
Moscow — On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin conveyed to a senior North Korean official an invitation for Kim Jong-un to visit Russia as he praised the results of his summit with Donald Trump. Hosting Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s ceremonial head of state, Putin said the historic summit with the US president was "without doubt just the first step towards a full-blown settlement ... Thanks to this meeting a possible negative scenario has been cast aside", Putin said. "Certainly it creates conditions for further forward movement and decreases general tensions around the Korean peninsula." Trump and Kim made history on Tuesday holding a summit in Singapore. It was an unprecedented encounter that saw the leader of the world’s most powerful democracy shake hands with the third-generation scion of a dynastic dictatorship. But critics said the Kim and Trump summit was more style than substance, producing a document short on specifics about the key issue of Pyongyang’s atomic weapons. Putin...
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