North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the completed railway that connects Koam and Dapchon, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on May 24, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)
MOSCOW, September 10 (Reuters): A senior Russian official who met Kim Jong Un this weekend cited the North
Korean leader as saying he did not plan any unilateral steps to denuclearize and was instead awaiting a U.S. response to steps he already took, Russia's RIA news agency reported.
Valentina Matvienko, a Kremlin loyalist and speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, met the North
Korean leader in Pyongyang on Saturday.
Matvienko said Kim Jong Un had been polite and diplomatic in his remarks about U.S. President Donald Trump, RIA reported. She also quoted him as saying he hoped for Russian backing in weakening U.S. sanctions on North
Korea.
