North Korea–United States summit

Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump walk side by side with their backs to the camera during their first summit.

Why Trump failed to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, and how he can do better at the next summit

Global Politics

Donald Trump says North Korea is no longer a “Nuclear Threat” but US intelligence agencies said in January that the country has kept its arsenal. The next summit is in two weeks. What can Trump do differently this time?

US President Donald Trump is shown wearing a suit and red tie, walking with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, wearing an all black outfit surrounded by greenery.

Trump says to meet North Korea’s Kim in Vietnam in late February

Kim Jong-un inspects a large metal piece of equipment with others around him.

Expert: ‘Cautiously optimistic’ about possible peace deal with North Korea

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh arrive for a photo opportunity before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 9, 2018.

Trump and Kim will meet again, but why in Vietnam?

South Korean soldiers stand guard as construction equipment destroys a guard post in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, Nov. 15, 2018. 

Should the US lift sanctions against North Korea already?

US Diplomacy
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un walk together

Diplomacy between Kim Jong-un and Trump is unraveling, and South Korea’s president will suffer

Global Politics

Three months ago, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were shaking hands. Now, things appear to be on the verge of falling apart.

President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un walk together before their working lunch during their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore on June 12, 2018.

Denuclearization is not going to happen, says this North Korea expert

Watching the historic summit in June with Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea expert Andrei Lankov says he was not very hopeful about Kim giving up his country’s nuclear weapons. But he says there are still opportunities for success.

US President Donald Trump sits next to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un with the flags of both countries behind them.

Trump, Kim make pledge on denuclearization

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledged on Tuesday to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarantees for its old enemy.

North Korean envoy Kim Yong-chol talks with US President Donald Trump as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on

It’s on again. Trump says summit with North Korea on June 12 will proceed

Conflict

Donald Trump described the Singapore summit as the start of a process and not the place where the two leaders were likely to sign any agreement, a stark contrast to his previous insistence that the summit had to yield real progress toward North Korea’s denculearization.

Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party Central Committee

High-ranking North Korean official will come to US to nail down on-again, off-again summit

Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee and formerly head of a top North Korean military intelligence agency, will meet with Mike Pompeo later this week, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.