South Korean President Moon Jae-in planted a tree in Pyongyang on Wednesday to commemorate his visit to North Korea, during which he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Seoul press center, which receives all information about Moon's visit to Pyongyang.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday presented North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un with silver and gold medals commemorating this year's historic summits.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States has made "tremendous" progress with North Korea, and the entire situation on the Korean peninsula has "calmed down."

Tehran hopes that the United Kingdom will play a crucial role in reconstruction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor in Iran's north-western city of Arak, pursuant to the Iran nuclear deal, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Wednesday, local media reported.

US President Donald Trump could be under the pressure to respond to North Korea's latest concessions on denuclearization, despite Pyongyang's offers failing to address its existing nuclear capabilities, following the inter-Korean summit on Wednesday, experts told Sputnik.

The Japanese government hopes that the statement that Seoul and Pyongyang issued earlier on Wednesday after their summit, which stipulates that Pyongyang should disassemble its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, will contribute to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday.

A group of Democrats from both chambers of US Congress introduced a bill banning low-yield nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles launched from submarines, US Congressman Adam Smith's press office announced in a release on Tuesday.