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US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Vietnam on February 27 and 28, 2019.

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9 September, 2024

US presidential election 2024

What if Trump wins?

5 Mar 2024 - 7:00PM

South Korea restores military drills once reduced to help Trump

22 Jul 2022 - 6:18PM

Trump ‘improperly’ took Kim ‘love letters’ from White House to Mar-a-Lago

8 Feb 2022 - 5:23AMvideocam

North Korea launches most powerful missile in years with month’s 7th test

Nuclear-armed North Korea has never tested this many weapons in a calendar month; South Korea says situation starting to resemble 2017, when North’s provocative tests led to war threats between Kim and Trump.

30 Jan 2022 - 10:55PMvideocam

A long-range cruise missile is test-fired at an undisclosed location in North Korea earlier this month. Photo: AFP/Korean Central News Agency via KNS

Korean peninsula

Editorial | A renewed chance for peace in Korea

China and the United States must pull out all the stops as the leaders of the North and South appear ready to resume dialogue.

5 Oct 2021 - 12:54AMvideocam

US set for ‘disappointment’ over North Korea talks’ restart: Kim Yo-jong

Observers said the statement from Kim Jong-un’s sister implied that Washington needed to come up with ‘more concrete and palatable offers’ before Pyongyang will return to dialogue.

22 Jun 2021 - 10:11PMvideocam

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Trump slams South Korea’s Moon, but touts friendship with Kim Jong-un

‘We were treated like fools for decades,’ the former president says, accusing Moon of ripping off the US.

24 Apr 2021 - 6:27AMvideocam

Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in February. Photo: AP

North Korea could resume nuclear tests this year, US intelligence report claims

Kim Jong-un ‘views nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent against foreign intervention and believes that over time he will gain international acceptance and respect as a nuclear power,’ the report says.

14 Apr 2021 - 10:13AMvideocam

Trump offered Kim Jong-un ‘ride home on Air Force One’: report

According to a new BBC documentary, the then-US president ‘stunned even the most seasoned diplomats’ by offering Kim a lift home after their 2019 summit in Vietnam.

22 Feb 2021 - 11:32AM

Opinion | How the Trump years have strengthened US-led international liberalism

US policy on China and Taiwan is much clearer, Quad allied have drawn closer, the Korean peninsula status quo has been vindicated – and John Bolton has been politically neutered.

27 Nov 2020 - 4:40AMvideocam

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Tokyo on October 6. Indo-Pacific democracies have strengthened their cooperation, with Quad members coordinating more naval exercises as well as their pandemic responses. Photo: AP/Bloomberg

US presidential election 2020

Seoul seeks to further Trump’s legacy on North Korea under Biden-led US

President Moon Jae-in says South Korea will ensure there is no ‘vacuum’ in diplomatic efforts to achieve peace in the Korean peninsula.

9 Nov 2020 - 11:02PMvideocam

South Korea plans to work with the incoming Biden administration to continue the North Korea strategy pursued by US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

Book reveals how Kim Jong-un wooed Trump with flattery-filled letters

Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage’ unveils 25 letters the pair exchanged, in which Kim fawns over the US president while they formed a most unusual friendship.

10 Sep 2020 - 4:00PMvideocam

North Korea nuclear crisis

North Korea nukes: Seoul hopes Trump can learn art of the small deal

South’s President Moon Jae-in is pulling out the stops to revive talks on denuclearisation. But Washington is sceptical of half-measures and Pyongyang appears intransigent.

9 Jul 2020 - 8:27PM

South Korea official hits out at ‘chaotic’ US approach to North

Moon Chung-in, a special adviser to the South Korean president, also accused former US national security adviser John Bolton of thwarting talks with North Korea.

2 Jul 2020 - 6:53PM

Moon Chung-in, special adviser on national security to South Korea's president Moon Jae-in, speaks to reporters in Seoul. Photo: AFP

Seoul rubbishes ‘distorted’ John Bolton’s memoir on Trump-Kim summit

The former national security adviser claimed that President Moon had raised unrealistic expectations with both Kim and Trump for his own ‘unification’ agenda.

22 Jun 2020 - 3:15PMvideocam

US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un stand on the North Korean side of the demilitarised zone in Panmunjom. Photo: AFP

Analysis | Two years after historic summit, what remains of Trump-Kim bromance?

Their historic 2018 meeting raised hopes of lasting peace and stability on Korean peninsula but the initial thaw has not led to further breakthroughs.

13 Jun 2020 - 10:24PMvideocam

Kim-Trump friendship is pointless, North Korea says on summit anniversary

Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon said US policies prove Washington remains a long-term threat to the North Korean regime and its people.

13 Jun 2020 - 4:20PM

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North Korea threatens to scrap military agreement with South over anti-Kim leaflets

North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo-jong said South would ‘pay a dear price’ if leaflets criticising the regime continue to be sent across the border by activists.

4 Jun 2020 - 9:20PM

North Korean defectors and other activists have long flown balloons across the border carrying leaflets that criticise Kim over human rights abuses and his nuclear ambitions. Photo: EPA

US indicts 5 Chinese over US$2.5b in illegal funding for North Korean nukes

More than two dozen North Koreans also charged for facilitating over US$2.5 billion in payments in largest such sanctions violations case.

29 May 2020 - 11:06PMvideocam

Trump says he is ‘glad’ Kim Jong-un ‘is back, and well’

The North Korean leader was rumoured to be dea after he was not seen in public for a number of weeks.

3 May 2020 - 6:26AM

Politico | Trump bet on Kim. Now he’s disappeared

With North Korea’s leader missing, US president’s personal diplomacy now seems even more fruitless.

28 Apr 2020 - 8:30AMvideocam

US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the demilitarised zone in June 2019. Photo: TNS

Trump thinks report on ‘gravely ill’ Kim Jong-un was incorrect

US president says he heard speculation on North Korean leader’s condition was based on ‘old documents.

24 Apr 2020 - 4:32PMvideocam

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signs a guestbook next to his sister Kim Yo-jong inside the Peace House at the demilitarised zone in April 2018. Photo: Korea Summit Press Pool via AP

Trump wishes Kim Jong-un well amid reports on leader’s health issues

‘If he is in the kind of condition that the reports say … that would be very serious condition,’ US president tells White House news conference.

22 Apr 2020 - 11:15AMvideocam

North Korea fires multiple projectiles, Seoul says

Launch comes after the North fired two short-range projectiles last week.

9 Mar 2020 - 10:46PM

Trump keeps faith in Kim despite North Korea threat of ‘shocking action’

Experts say the North will continue to build up its nuclear arsenal but will not test-launch ICBMs at risk of angering China and Russia.

2 Jan 2020 - 10:37AM

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their 2018 summit in Singapore. Photo: Ministry of Communications Singapore

Looking to 2020 for India, Indonesia, the Koreas and US-China tussle: the expert view

After the conflict and volatility that marked 2019, four commentators offer their predictions for the trends likely to impact Asia in the year ahead.

28 Dec 2019 - 11:00AM

A supporter of India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party holds up a mask of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: AP

US envoy dismisses year-end deadline, tells North Korea ‘let’s get this done’

Stephen Biegun arrived in Seoul for talks with South Korean officials and dismissed Pyongyang’s year-end deadline for US concessions.

16 Dec 2019 - 10:06PMvideocam

Kim Jong-un ‘doesn’t deserve’ Trump’s praise, North Korean defector says

Grace Jo, who escaped the North after losing most of her family, met US president at White House’s commemoration of National Day for the Victims of Communism.

8 Nov 2019 - 7:31AM

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