Finally, a Putin-Kim summit is underway. In recent years it has been frequently rumored that a summit is just about to happen, but every time these rumors were eventually proven to be unfounded.

Now, with the meeting set to take place tomorrow in Russia’s Far East, it is probably a good time to recall the earlier summits between leaders of the two countries.

The first-ever meeting between the de facto North Korean leader and the leader of the state which at the time was known as the Soviet Union occurred in summer 1946.

Kim Il Sung, whose official