Kim Jong Un accuses US of acting in ‘bad faith’

The report in North Korea’s state-run KCNA news was released on the final day of Kim’s visit to the far-eastern Russian city of Vladivostok. Kim and Putin met there for the first time Thursday, spending about three and a half hours together. The North Korean leader left Vladivostok Friday afternoon aboard his armored government train.

KCNA reported that “Kim Jong Un said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula and the region is now at a standstill, and has reached a critical point where it may return to its original state, as the US took a unilateral attitude in bad faith at the recent second DPRK-US summit talks,” using the acronym for North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.