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East Asia
Signs of N. Korea reassembling part of Dongchang-ri missile site detected: source
South Korea has detected signs of North Korea restoring an ancillary building of its Dongchang-ri long-range missile launch site that it partially disassembled last year, a government source in Seoul said Wednesday. On Tuesday, Beyond Parallel, a project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that…
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East Asia
What happened, or didn’t happen, when Trump and Kim met again
When Kim Jong-un chose to travel nearly 4,000 kilometers by train to meet Donald Trump, it was only the beginning of a long and bumpy road to disarmament and peace, which remains out of reach after many handshakes, pleasantries and two days of talks. The North Korean leader and the…
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East Asia
Trump holds out hope for deal with North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced hope that a nuclear deal with North Korea will be reached in the future. Trump held his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, but they failed to bridge their gaps on the issue of dismantling the…
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East Asia
Trump slams military drills after N.K. summit ends without deal
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he doesn’t want military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea because they are expensive and unhelpful for diplomacy with North Korea. Trump made the remark on Twitter a day after the allies announced an end to two major combined exercises — Key…
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East Asia
N. Korean leader in Hanoi for talks with Trump
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un checked into a Hanoi hotel Tuesday on the eve of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump expected to focus on trading his nuclear program for economic and political rewards. A bulletproof Mercedes S600 Pullman Guard carrying Kim arrived at the five-star Melia hotel in…
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East Asia
(2nd LD) (US-NK summit) Kim’s train runs in inland China for summit with Trump
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s special train arrived in the central Chinese town of Changsha on Monday on its way to Vietnam for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump later this week, a source said. The train arrived in Changsha of Hunan Province around 1:10 p.m. after passing through…
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East Asia
Moon: Trump-Kim summit to produce ‘specific, substantial’ outcomes
President Moon Jae-in expressed the hope Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can build off their first meeting to make “more specific and substantial progress” at their second summit, which he believes could help advance inter-Korean relations. “Beyond bringing a lasting peace with no…
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East Asia
North Korea: economy, denuclearization, summit
“I am ready to meet the U.S. president again anytime” In the New Year speech, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un mentioned, “I am ready to meet the U.S. president again anytime, and will make efforts to obtain without fail results which can be welcomed by the international community.”…
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Politics
Has Singapore Led to Real Gains on the North Korean Nuclear Question?
The warm feelings of the Singapore summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump in June have given way to the chill of December and the reality of a coming winter. In October and November, North Korea’s state-run news agency, KCNA, published a series of commentaries warning that North…
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East Asia
Forecasting Korea’s future
The French have two expressions that capture the essence of Kim Jong-un’s New Year address. First, there’s “deja vu” ― or maybe “deja vu all over again,” as the American baseball player Yogi Berra famously put it. And then there’s “plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” ― “the…
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