President Moon Jae-in emphasized three-way cooperation between South Korea, North Korea and Russia, backed by the establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula.  President Moon expressed his views on the future of cooperation between Seoul and Moscow in a joint interview on June 20, one day before his state visit to Russia, with Russian media outlets, including the news agency ITAR-TASS, the newspaper Rossiskaya Gazata and the state broadcaster RTR. 

President Moon Jae-in will pay a state visit to Russia from June 21 to 24 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.  During the Russia visit, President Moon will hold a summit meeting with President Putin in Moscow.  President Moon will meet Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, deliver a speech before the Duma, and will attend a Korea-Russia business forum. He will then move to the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don for a 2018 FIFA World Cup soccer match between Korea and Mexico on June 23. 

President Moon Jae-in said that the government will cautiously consider suspending joint military drills with the U.S. as a follow-up action to the NK-U.S. summit.  “If North Korea sincerely implements denuclearization measures and faithfully continues talks with South Korea and the United States to help ease hostile relations, it is necessary to flexibly change the military pressure against the North, in line with the spirit of building mutual trust as agreed in the Panmunjeom Declaration,” said the president during a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) at Cheong Wa Dae on June 14. “We will carefully consider the possibility of suspending Korea-U.S. joint military exercises.”