Putin hopes Trump-Kim summit can be resurrected

President Vladimir Putin said today Russia regrets US President Donald Trump calling off his summit plans with Kim Jong Un, but hopes dialogue can be resumed and the summit eventually take place.

"We had counted on that a significant step towards a deescalation on the Korean peninsula would be taken and a start made on the denuclearisation... we hope that a dialogue will be resumed, continued and the meeting take place," Putin said at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron.