Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, welcoming him with a lavish reception in the eastern city of Vladivostok. The picture was at odds with the clumsy February summit in Vietnam between Kim and US President Donald Trump, who walked out during the crucial negotiations. In Vladivostok, Kim called Trump’s approach “a unilateral attitude in bad faith” and instead described ties with Moscow as “strategic and traditional relations.”
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This handout picture provided by press service of Administration of Primorsky Krai shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un disembarking from his private armoured train at a station in the Russian border town of Khasan on April 24, 2019.
