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North Korea threatens to call off Trump summit
North Korea has suspended talks with South Korea and threatened to cancel an historic summit between Kim Jong-un and President Trump, saying it wasn’t interested in a one-sided demand to give up its nuclear weapons. Mr Trump said he hadn’t been notified about any threat and would still insist on North Korea’s denuclearisation.
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Global risk analyst, Ian Bremner: Korean de-nuclearisation will be a ‘longer-term process’
Ian Bremmer is the founder of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research firm.
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Trump to meet North Korea leader in Singapore next month
In the US, President Trump is predicting a “big success” for the forthcoming summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. He was speaking as he capitalised on the return of three American detainees released by North Korea. He added that he hoped he could travel to North Korea one day and that he believed Mr…
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How North Korea’s nuclear negotiations could finally lead to peace
It’s one of the world’s longest-running conflicts, but could it finally be coming to an end?
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Governor Bill Richardson: Korea summit ‘remarkable, breathtaking’
Governor Bill Richardson, who was the former US ambassador to the United Nations and has travelled to North Korea numerous times, and Jean Lee, director of the Korea Foundation Centre in Washington, discuss the historic summit.
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History made as North and South Korean leaders pledge to end war
A moment in history captured in a handshake, as the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un grasped hands with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in, and they walked together across the border in scenes unimaginable just a few months ago. The two leaders agreed to work towards ridding the entire peninsula of nuclear weapons, along with a peace…
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North Korean defector: ‘The free world is amazing’
Donald Trump has declared that a deal with North Korea is “very much in the making”, a day after revealing he had agreed to meet its leader Kim Jong-un. Cathy Newman speaks to a North Korean defector-turned-activist who met President Trump.
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North Korea invites South Korean president to visit
North Korea has invited South Korean leader President Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang. It would be the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in more than a decade. The invite came as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s younger sister visited the Winter Olympics, where today a joint Korean Ice Hockey team turned…
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North Korea says UN sanctions are ‘act of war’
The sanctions, which were agreed by all 15 member states of the council, were imposed in response to North Korea’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile tests.
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North Korea facing new sanctions from UN Security Council
US President Donald Trump has praised the United Nations Security Council after it voted to impose new fuel sanctions on North Korea. All 15 nations backed the measures which aim to cut North Korea’s petrol and oil imports by 90 per cent in an attempt curb its missile programme.
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North Korean soldier shot during escape
Dramatic footage has emerged showing the defection of a North Korean soldier under a hail of gunfire from his former comrades. The officer suffered multiple gunshot wounds as he fled towards South Korea.
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How did North Korea get its nuclear weapons?
North Korea has obtained the money, knowledge and materials to build nuclear missiles which – it claims – can reach American soil. But it would be in this position without help from the outside world. FactCheck follows North Korea’s nuclear trail, from the Soviet Union to South London.
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Donald Trump calls Kim Jong-un ‘short and fat’
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have been trading insults again, as the president arrives on the last leg of his Asia tour.
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Japan calls North Korea’s latest missile an ‘unprecedented threat’
President Trump declared “all options” were on the table after North Korea fired a missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan
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China tells Trump and Pyongyang to ‘exercise restraint’
China has urged the United States and North Korea to calm down and avoid ramping up tensions.
