The Korean Central News Agency said Kim presided over a meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party. It didn't say when it took place.
The failure of Trump's second summit with Kim shows the limits of the 's economic appeal in nuclear talks
Trump and Kim met last week in Vietnam to negotiate on getting rid of North Korea's nuclear arsenal, but the summit broke up early with no progress
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the congressional questioning last week of his former lawyer may have contributed to the failure of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- even as his national security advisor claimed the Hanoi meeting was a success. A high-stakes second summit to strike a disarmament deal with Kim broke up in disarray in Vietnam Thursday, with Trump saying: "Sometimes you have to walk and this was just one of those times." The summit took place at the same time a Democrat-led congressional committee was grilling Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, who labelled his ex-boss a "racist", "conman", and "cheat". On Sunday, Trump said the hearing may have contributed to the "walk". "For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the 'walk'," he tweeted. "Never done when a ...
The failure is a blow for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is keen to see the lifting of sanctions that have hampered his ambitions to reopen an inter-Korean factory park and tourism zone
Trump has for sometime said he is not in a hurry to cut a deal with Pyongyang
Trump has no intention of lifting harsh US sanctions on North Korea and isn't pushing for a hasty deal with Kim
The US president again dangled the carrot of economic progress for North Korea if it gives up its nuclear programme
A Kim Jong Un impersonator was hauled from his hotel Monday ahead of his planned deportation from Vietnam before the real North Korean leader meets US President Donald Trump in Hanoi later this week. Howard X arrived in town with Trump impersonator Russell White last week, staging a fake summit on the steps of Hanoi's Opera House amid a swarm of press and hired security guards. The real Trump and Kim will meet for a summit in Hanoi on February 27-28 to build on their first meeting in June in Singapore which failed to produce any concrete moves to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal. The Kim lookalike was questioned by Hanoi police on Friday and informed he would be put on a plane back to Hong Kong where he lives. The impersonator was told by Vietnamese immigration officials his visa was "invalid", but said he received no further explanation. "The real reason is I was born with a face looking like Kim Jong Un, that's the real crime," he told reporters Monday, getting into a van .
The swing from international pariah to guest of honor is a testament to Kim's success in wresting power from military chieftains and eliminating rivals since his father died in 2011
US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, will have their second face-to-face meeting today in Vietnam.
Trump and Kim will meet in the Vietnamese capital on Feb. 27 and 28 for the second summit since their historic first meeting in Singapore last June
The announcement came after Trump met with North Korean envoy, Kim Yong Chol, for a discussion that included talk about Kim Jong-un's unfulfilled pledge to dismantle nuclear weapons programme
The White House revealed over a week ago that it has been coordinating a possible second summit between Trump and Kim after Pyongyang sent a letter to Washington in early September
As the two leaders strolled around the grounds where they are having their first-ever historic summit, they walked up to the eight-tonne bulletproof limousine
Investors were hopeful of a positive outcome from a highly anticipated U.S.-Korea summit
Kim was due to meet Singaporean President Lee Hsien Loong later on Sunday, the city-state's foreign ministry said, while Trump was flying from Canada on board Air Force One after leaving the G7 summit
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The June 12 summit would represent the first-ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president