RSIS senior fellow Chris Cheang wrote that President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on 25 April 2019 in Vladivostok reinforces the message that the US alone cannot influence what Pyongyang will do on denuclearisation.

…Chris Cheang is a Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a diplomat in the Singapore Embassy in Moscow for three terms between 1994 and 2013 before retiring in September 2017.