Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this year may have faltered, but at least one person thinks that there is still hope for stabilizing the Korean Peninsula: Russian President Vladimir Putin. On April 25, he met with Kim, whom he describes as “an interesting and substantive interlocutor,” in Vladivostok. “The most important thing, as we have discussed today during the talks,” Putin continued, “is to restore the rule of international law and revert to the position where global developments were regulated by international law instead of the rule of force. If this happens, this would be the first and critical step toward resolving challenging situations such as the one on the Korean Peninsula.”
Foreign Policy: What Putin said to Kim (Transcript)
This picture taken on April 25, 2019 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 26 shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending a reception following their talks at the Far Eastern Federal University campus on Russky island in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok.
