South Korean President Moon Jae-in discussed North Korea’s recent behavior with President Donald Trump in a 20-minute phone conversation on Sunday. According to South Korea’s presidential Blue House, the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to work together for a successful summit between the U.S. and North Korea in June.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to visit Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss North Korea policy.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang appeared to chide North Korea for threatening to pull out of the planned summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
English translations of the North Korean editorials that implied dictator Kim Jong-un might withdraw from his June summit with President Donald Trump reveal North Korea was infuriated by long-scheduled U.S.-South Korean military drills. The North Koreans denounced these exercises as a “deliberate military provocation” and rejected criticism of North Korea’s human rights violations as a “senseless act of disregarding elementary etiquette.”
Appearing on Fox News Sunday this weekend, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States will “provide security assurances” to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un at his summit with President Donald Trump in June, including a promise not to overthrow the Kim regime.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry reportedly accused U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration of engaging in a “dangerous attempt” to ruin the mood of the prospective Korean detente with “misleading” claims that it is the main driver behind the potential denuclearization of the peninsula. North Korea argues that dictator Kim Jong-un is the sole force pushing the regime to the negotiating table.
An unidentified source told CNN on Tuesday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has tentatively agreed to meet with President Donald Trump, and there is a “strong possibility” the summit will be held in late May in Panmunjom – the same “peace village” on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where Kim met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in last Friday.
If people are really serious about world peace, the solution is to “ban all weapons,” Pope Francis said in a tweet this week.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon that he has proposed the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea as a potential location for a U.S.-North Korea denuclearization summit.
National Security Adviser John Bolton discussed nuclear negotiations with North Korea on Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation on CBS.
At their historic summit meeting in Panmunjom on Friday, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced they would work for the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” and formally end the Korean War after 55 years.
Final preparations were completed Thursday in the border village of Panmunjom for Friday’s summit meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
According to South Korean news reports, North Korean propaganda has told its citizens that the summits are not grave discussions of denuclearization, but rather a triumphant Kim Jong-un’s formal welcome into the global nuclear power club.
New details of the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Mike Pompeo, newly confirmed secretary of state, came out in a Thursday morning Fox and Friends live phone interview with President Donald Trump.
At a joint news conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the United States is “fighting very diligently” to secure the freedom of three Americans held by North Korea.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that North Korea has dropped its long-standing demand for American forces to withdraw completely from the Korean peninsula as a condition for denuclearization.
The Washington Post brings up an embarrassing little detail that may need to be cleared up before the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un can take place: Kim may not have an airplane capable of crossing the Pacific to attend a meeting in Europe, at least not without an embarrassing number of refueling stops.
President Donald Trump updated the American people about the upcoming talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, signaling on Twitter that peace was possible.
Preparations for the still-unconfirmed meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un are moving ahead, as the South Korean government said on Friday it is working to expedite both a summit with North Korea and a meeting between Trump and President Moon Jae-in. Meanwhile, North Korea’s Foreign Minister was spotted in Sweden, prompting speculation that he was doing advance work for Trump and Kim to meet there.
Keeping maximum pressure on North Korea was again a topic of discussion during Vice President Mike Pence’s closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
In an editorial published by the state-run Global Times on Friday, China refused to be “marginalized” as U.S. President Donald Trump considers direct talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
South Korean envoys are talking about their meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang this week, a conference that climaxed as Kim supposedly indicated he is prepared to discuss denuclearization in a face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
On the day President Donald Trump took office, he determined the need for a new approach to the denuclearization of North Korea that avoided mistakes of the past, a senior administration official told reporters on Thursday night.
Vice President Mike Pence is reaffirming United States’ unrelenting commitment to exercise maximum pressure on North Korea until the regime produces “credible verifiable, and concrete steps toward denuclearization.”
The U.S. State Department announced new sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday that are directly tied to the February 2017 murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of dictator Kim Jong-un.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday urged the United States and North Korea to lower their conditions for negotiations to take place.
The White House and State Department revealed on Tuesday that North Korean officials offered to meet with Vice President Mike Pence during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but retracted their offer at the last minute after Pence condemned North Korea’s human rights violations.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave a press conference on Wednesday in which he said President Donald Trump “deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks” that were held this week.
The Washington Post reported that a New York-based think tank is seeking permission for North Korean representatives to visit the U.S.
The United States has “flexibility” when it comes to engaging North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, as shown by its willingness to seal an accord with Iran, the US Envoy tasked with re-engaging the Hermit Kingdom said Monday in Seoul, South Korea.
