The Kremlin said no major pacts are planned for the first summit between Kim and Putin. But the nuclear issue will top the agenda.
By Amie Ferris-Rotman and Amie Ferris-Rotman Moscow reporter for the Washington Post. Email Bio Follow Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow April 23 at 4:50 PM MOSCOW — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang on Tuesday for Russia’s Far East for his first summit with Vladimir Putin, as the Trump administration watches from the sidelines for any potential cracks in sanctions and other pressures on Kim’s regime.
Putin, meanwhile, is likely to use the meeting to further project Russia’s influence in Asian affairs and signal that the Kremlin should have a hand in any grand bargains struck with Kim. A worker adjusts the flags of Russia and North Korea along a road on Russky Island, off the southern tip of Vladivostok, Russia, on Tuesday, ahead of a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. But Alexei Chepa, the deputy head of Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, used the upcoming summit to call for a lifting of sanctions of economic sanctions against North Korea.
People watch a TV showing North Korean leader Kim, left, and Putin at the Seoul Railway Station on Tuesday. Biegun raised specific instances in which the United States believes Russia violated U.N. sanctions against North Korea, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions. In a journey receiving much attention in the Russian press, the North Korean leader traveled by armored train to Vladivostok, a journey of 435 miles from Pyongyang. His train is expected to pull into Vladivostok on Wednesday morning, a day before Putin arrives.
At the height of tensions in 2017, Moscow voted alongside Beijing for relatively tight sanctions, although some illicit trade between Russia and North Korea has invited criticism from the United States.
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