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US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Vietnam on February 27 and 28, 2019.
China and the United States must pull out all the stops as the leaders of the North and South appear ready to resume dialogue.
Vietnam’s role as host of the high-profile summit has consolidated its friendship with the US, further boosting its standing in Southeast Asian affairs.
Trump’s meetings with Kim Jong-un led to no concrete steps to wind down North Korea’s nuclear programme, which only grew in strength and size as the diplomacy fizzled out.
The US National Archives says it has retrieved 15 boxes of documents that should have been turned over at the end of the ex-president’s term.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has never tested this many weapons in a calendar month; South Korea says situation starting to resemble 2017, when North’s provocative tests led to war threats between Kim and Trump.
Observers said the statement from Kim Jong-un’s sister implied that Washington needed to come up with ‘more concrete and palatable offers’ before Pyongyang will return to dialogue.
‘We were treated like fools for decades,’ the former president says, accusing Moon of ripping off the US.
Kim Jong-un ‘views nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent against foreign intervention and believes that over time he will gain international acceptance and respect as a nuclear power,’ the report says.
According to a new BBC documentary, the then-US president ‘stunned even the most seasoned diplomats’ by offering Kim a lift home after their 2019 summit in Vietnam.
President Moon Jae-in says South Korea will ensure there is no ‘vacuum’ in diplomatic efforts to achieve peace in the Korean peninsula.
Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage’ unveils 25 letters the pair exchanged, in which Kim fawns over the US president while they formed a most unusual friendship.
South’s President Moon Jae-in is pulling out the stops to revive talks on denuclearisation. But Washington is sceptical of half-measures and Pyongyang appears intransigent.
Moon Chung-in, a special adviser to the South Korean president, also accused former US national security adviser John Bolton of thwarting talks with North Korea.
The former national security adviser claimed that President Moon had raised unrealistic expectations with both Kim and Trump for his own ‘unification’ agenda.
Their historic 2018 meeting raised hopes of lasting peace and stability on Korean peninsula but the initial thaw has not led to further breakthroughs.
Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon said US policies prove Washington remains a long-term threat to the North Korean regime and its people.
North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo-jong said South would ‘pay a dear price’ if leaflets criticising the regime continue to be sent across the border by activists.
More than two dozen North Koreans also charged for facilitating over US$2.5 billion in payments in largest such sanctions violations case.
The North Korean leader was rumoured to be dea after he was not seen in public for a number of weeks.
With North Korea’s leader missing, US president’s personal diplomacy now seems even more fruitless.
US president says he heard speculation on North Korean leader’s condition was based on ‘old documents.
‘If he is in the kind of condition that the reports say … that would be very serious condition,’ US president tells White House news conference.
Launch comes after the North fired two short-range projectiles last week.
Experts say the North will continue to build up its nuclear arsenal but will not test-launch ICBMs at risk of angering China and Russia.
After the conflict and volatility that marked 2019, four commentators offer their predictions for the trends likely to impact Asia in the year ahead.
Stephen Biegun arrived in Seoul for talks with South Korean officials and dismissed Pyongyang’s year-end deadline for US concessions.
Grace Jo, who escaped the North after losing most of her family, met US president at White House’s commemoration of National Day for the Victims of Communism.
Stephen Biegun nominated to replace Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, who is expected to become ambassador to Russia.
Pyongyang wants Washington to know it won’t give up its nuclear programme without a fight, observer says.