The statement warmly congratulated on the successful summit meeting and talks between Kim Jong Un, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation.

It said that Kim Jong Un's visit to Russia displayed the daily rising status of socialist Korea in the international arena.

His visit served as a great contribution to ensuring peace in the Korean peninsula and the region, it noted.

The traditional friendly relations between the DPRK and Russia with long history grew stronger through the meeting of the supreme leaders of the two countries, it stressed.