For Someone Who Is Always Late For Meetings, Russian President Putin Showed Up Before North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Did

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet for the first time on Thursday. They held meetings at the Far Eastern Federal University campus at Russky Island off Vladivostok, Russia. Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters

Business Insider: Putin broke the habit of a lifetime and didn't show up late for his first-ever meeting with Kim Jong Un

* Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met for the first time on Thursday.
* They chiefly discussed North Korea's nuclear program. They met on an island off Vladivostok, in eastern Russia.
* But one thing that stood out from the summit was how much Putin gave face to Kim by showing up half an hour early to their meeting.
* Putin is notoriously late to meetings, and has kept people like US President Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting, sometimes for hours.

One thing that stood out from the summit was how much Putin appeared to show his respect for Kim, who not long ago was an international pariah.

The Russian leader, who has a long track record of making world leaders wait for him, arrived at the venue 30 minutes before Kim.

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WNU editor: They were actually both late. The meeting was suppose to be at 1:00 PM, but Putin showed up at 1:35, and Kim showed up at 2:05. There are though two people that I know of where President Putin always shows up on time. There are also two of his closest friends .... Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister of Italy, and Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany.