Tag: Kim Jong-un
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Putin, Kim Jong-un hold first ever summit
The meetings are expected to focus on finding a peaceful resolution to the issue of Pyongyang's denuclearization and efforts at reducing cross-border tensions on the Korean peninsula.
April 25, 2019 -
N.Korea didn’t test ballistic missile: US official
US Acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has confirmed that North Korea conducted a weapons test, but said that it was "not a ballistic missile".
April 19, 2019 -
US sanctions 2 Chinese firms for helping N Korea evade restrictions
The Trump administration has sanctioned 182 persons or entities for North Korean violations since March 2017 but only 26 since February of 2018.
March 22, 2019 -
War games in abeyance
Trump had been quite wary about the mounting cost of the exercises and was seriously reflecting on the issue, overlooking what implications the decision would have on the security of the region. The failure of the Hanoi summit provided the right opportunity for him to announce the decision. He thus decided to replace the large-scale drills with a series of smaller exercises and virtual exercises based on training and technology instead of deploying thousands of actual troops for the war games.
March 14, 2019 -
Kim Jong-nam killing: Murder charge dropped against Indonesian
An Indonesian woman was freed on Monday after a Malaysian judge discharged her of murder charge in the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-uns half brother, Kim Jong-nam.
March 11, 2019 -
Fizzle in Hanoi
Thursday’s summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was a nonstarter.
March 1, 2019 -
No lifting of economic sanctions, Donald Trump tells Kim Jong-un at Hanoi
Trump said his meeting with Kim didn't end contentiously but with "a very friendly walk".
February 28, 2019 -
Kim Jong-un leaves for Hanoi for second US-North Korea summit
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un left for Vietnamese capital Hanoi for the second US-North Korea summit, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday.
February 24, 2019 -
Trump to meet Kim in Hanoi on 27-28 February
US President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 27 and 28 February, for their second high-stakes summit meeting intended to eliminate a potential nuclear threat.
February 9, 2019 -
Donald Trump to hold second round of meeting with Kim Jong-un on February 27-28 in Vietnam
Trump said, "If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea."
February 6, 2019 -
Trump-Kim summit: Second meeting by February-end
The announcement came after Trump met top North Korean negotiator Kim Yong-chol at the White House on Friday.
January 19, 2019 -
A defection and Korean dynamics
The latest rounds of dialogue between the US and the two Koreas will also fall at this hurdle unless they find a novel way forward.
January 14, 2019 -
If Trump and Kim can meet, why not other countries: Nepal on stalled SAARC summit
Nepal on Friday strongly pitched for convening of the SAARC summit, saying differences should be resolved through dialogue and the grouping should collectively deal with terrorism and other key challenges facing the region.
January 11, 2019 -
Mild bluster
North Korean President Kim Jong-un has clarified that international sanctions must be lifted before Pyongyang gives up a single weapon, dismantles a single missile site, or stops producing nuclear material
January 7, 2019 -
Realistic fantasies in Korean détente
Seoul’s Unification Ministry sent 200 metric tons of tangerines to Pyongyang in return for the two tons of pine mushrooms that North Korean chief Kim Jong-un shipped to the South after September’s inter-Korean summit.
December 6, 2018 -
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un successfully ‘tests high-tech tactical weapon’: Report
Kim Jong Un inspected the testing of a newly developed high-tech tactical weapon at the Academy of National Defence Science, North Korea's state broadcaster said.
November 16, 2018 -
Report of North Korea’s ‘undisclosed’ missile bases not new: Seoul
Speaking about the report, the presidential office spokesman said that the source of the analysis of the Sakkanmol base was a commercial satellite
November 13, 2018