North Korea needs 'security guarantees' in exchange for denuclearisation: Putin

Vladivostok: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that North Korea needs security guarantees and that denuclearisation could only be achieved through international law.

North Korea "needs guarantees of its security, the preservation of its sovereignty," Putin said after talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"We need to restore the power of international law, to return to a state where international law, not the law of the strongest, determines the situation in the world."