Kim Jong Un a competent and mature leader, says Russia’s Vladimir Putin

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has shown himself to be a mature leader who is interested in calming down the tensions over the country’s nuclear and long-range missile programmes.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has shown himself to be a mature leader who is interested in calming down the tensions over the country’s nuclear and long-range missile programmes.

Meeting with top Russian media figures, Mr Putin said Kim "is an absolutely competent and already mature politician" who has "solved his strategic task - he has a nuclear warhead and a global-range missile".