Chairman of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs Leonid Slutsky:
“The summit of Trump and Kim Jong-un is truly a historical event. Talking about the immediate discharge on the Korean peninsula after the meeting between the US president and the leader of the DPRK, I would not, but today the morning of hope and hope, first of all, for making progress on the peaceful resolution of the situation around North Korea, has come true.
Now it is important to maintain a positive attitude, not to allow further provocation and mutual insults. The solution of the North Korean problem is possible only through diplomatic means. It is necessary to move step by step towards the goals of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with a simultaneous step-by-step reduction in the sanctions pressure on Pyongyang. And it is not speed that matters here, but the result, which can also be fully ensured by the implementation of the “road map” of Russia and China. And, of course, it would be logical to return to the format of the six-party talks to guarantee the peace process around the DPRK. “