When meeting with Putin, Kim Jong-un said that the United States acted "in bad faith" at the Hanoi summit.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un said Thursday that the US acted "bad faith" at its summit with President Donald Trump in Hanoi last February., and that the situation in the peninsula has reached "a critical point," reported Friday the North Korean agency. KCNA.

Kim made these comments at his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Vladivostok, a meeting that he described as "open and friendly", according to KCNA.

The North Korean leader invited Putin to visit North Korea "at the right time" and "the invitation was accepted voluntarily"said the official agency in one of its many offices at the summit.

Critical comments with the American attitude arrive A week after Pyongyang asked state secretary Mike Pompeo to be withdrawn from nuclear talks with Washington, accusing him of derailing the process.

The North Korean leader said that "The situation on the Korean peninsula and its region is stagnant and critical"he pointed KCNA.

Kim warned that "the situation could return to its original state since the United States has adopted a unilateral position of bad faith" at the second summit between North Korea and the United States, "said the agency.

This meeting, held in February in Hanoi, concluded without agreement on North Korea's nuclear arsenal. At the meeting, Pyongyang had called for immediate relief from the sanctions, but the two sides could not agree on the concessions that Pyongyang was willing to make in return.

During his meeting with Kim on Thursday, Putin is positioned as a counterweight to the United States, insisting that the North needs "guarantees on its security and the maintenance of its sovereignty."

"We must return to the state where international law, and not the law of the strongest, determines the situation in the world, "said Putin.

Kim told Putin that and that his country "will be prepared for any eventual situation," according to KCNA.