Second summit

North Korea and US vow to keep talking

North Korea on Friday promised further negotiations with the United States (US) despite a spectacular failure to strike a nuclear deal at their Hanoi summit, with both sides keeping the door of diplomacy open.The high-stakes second meeting between the North's leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump broke up in disarray Thursday, without even a joint statement.In the aftermath, each sought to blame the other's intransigence for the deadlock.Trump insisted Pyongyang wanted al

3 March 2019
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What to expect from second Trump-Kim summit

United States (US) President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are ready to reunite for a second time. Speaking to Congress in his State of the Union address, Trump said that there is still “much work to be done” and said that both leaders will meet in Vietnam at the end of the month."As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean peninsula," Trump said in his speech.

7 February 2019
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Trump’s North Korean road to nowhere

When United States (US) President Donald Trump meets again with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next month, he will be staging the second act in a comedy of manners that now passes for US foreign policy on the Korean Peninsula. Between Kim’s billets-doux to the White House and Trump’s gushing praise of Kim, the script could have been written by Oscar Wilde.

29 January 2019
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Sanctions and peace deal on US-North Korea summit agenda

As Donald Trump seeks progress with North Korea at a second summit, the United States (US) has a series of cards it can play including easing sanctions, signing a peace declaration or even pulling troops from South Korea.After the historic handshake between the US president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June, Washington policymakers are adamant on the need for tangible concessions by Pyongyang on its nuclear program at the sequel meeting, which Trump says will take place

28 January 2019
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