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Trump-Kim summiti

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Vietnam on February 27 and 28, 2019.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

‘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.

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