Kim says ball is now in US court

MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters): A senior Russian official who met Kim Jong Un this weekend cited the North Korean leader as saying he did not plan any unilateral steps to denuclearise and was instead awaiting a US response to steps he already took, Russia's RIA news agency reported.

Valentina Matvienko, a Kremlin loyalist and speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, met the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Saturday.

Matvienko said Kim Jong Un had been polite and diplomatic in his remarks about US President Donald Trump, RIA reported.