Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un meet in Russia’s Far East for first summit

By Amie Ferris-Rotman Amie Ferris-Rotman Moscow reporter for the Washington Post. Email Bio Follow April 25 at 3:06 AM MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on Thursday for their first talks, sending a stark signal to the United States that the Kremlin can wield influence over North Korea’s nuclear program.

“We welcome your efforts to develop intra-Korean dialogue and to normalize relations between North Korea and America,” Putin told Kim at the Far Eastern Federal University, whose main halls were decorated with the flags of both countries. Preparations for a concert at the university were also underway. North Korea already has links to the university hosting the talks, where there is an exchange program in place for several dozen students in partnership with major colleges in Pyongyang. Kim’s visit did not change the university’s schedule, although one of its scholars, Artyom Lukin, wrote on Twitter that he wished Kim could come speak to one of his classes.

North Korean state media celebrated Kim’s visit, with the front page of the Rodong Sinmun, the official paper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, carrying 12 photographs of Kim’s arrival and welcome splashed across its front page. “Now that the south Korean authorities get undisguised in their military provocation against the DPRK together with the U.S., there will be corresponding response to it from our army,” the statement warned, referring to the official name of their country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Rocket Man from Russia with Love

Well this Ought to be Good

Could this be Putin's way of telling Trump what Kremlin wants to happen with NK? Obviously risky for Putin or agent of Kremlin to contact POTUS or anyone close to POTUS to deliver messages when full-scale CI investigations of Kremlin - people in Trump's orb are on-going.

Please let there be an SNL sketch about this.

Met two fabulous...

Trump is on their side. Specifically, it sends a message to Dems in Washington.

Kim went to Vlad Trump went to Vlad

To compare notes on how they both played Trump for a fool.

Wow..this must burn the donald..get ready for the temper tantrum America

To laugh about & celebrate their superior deal making skills & their successful manipulations of realDonaldTrump ?

Trump must be so jealous his friends are hanging out without him

TRUMP IS FRESKING OUT ...NOT INCLUDED ....THEY WERE LAUGHING AT TRUMP ...WEAK LITTLE MAN ....TRUMP US TERRIFIED OF PUTIN AND KIM .....

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