(KR) Consolidating neighborly relations, Russia is ready to continue developing the entire range of bilateral ties with the DPRK.
Putin said this during the ceremony of receiving crentials from newly appointed foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin on November 24.
He also noted that the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula should be resolved only by diplomatic efforts, through negotiations.
Sin Hong Chol, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation, presented his credentials to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, at the ceremony.
We favour further consolidation of neighbourly relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The 75th anniversary of its liberation was also marked this year. Red Army soldiers fought for its freedom and independence shoulder to shoulder with the Korean patriots.
We are ready to continue developing the entire range of bilateral ties, as we agreed during the Russia-North Korea summit in Vladivostok in April 2019.
As for the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula, our position on it is well known: this problem must be resolved only by diplomatic efforts, through negotiations.