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SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore will strike commemorative medallions to mark the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the city-state next week. The medallions will depict an “affirmative handshake” between the two leaders, the scheduled date of the summit, and the flags of both countries, the Singapore Mint said in a statement Tuesday. At the back are the national flowers of both countries — roses for […]
by Sebastien Berger © Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — When Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un sit down in Singapore next week it will be among the most improbable diplomatic summits in history, with principals who could not be more different — but who also share some surprising similarities. Trump was the oldest US president ever to take office when he was sworn in last year, and will turn 72 two days after […]
by Michael Mathes © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — She is known for her privacy and White House independence, often breaking with her husband’s schedule. But Melania Trump’s unusual 25-day absence from public view following surgery for a “benign” kidney condition has raised questions. The first lady was scheduled to re-emerge in the public eye later Monday at a private reception for families of US soldiers killed in action — her first […]
by Andrew Beatty and Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as originally scheduled on June 12 for a historic summit after extraordinary Oval Office talks with a top envoy from Pyongyang. Speaking after more than an hour of talks with Kim Yong Chol in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that denuclearization — and a formal […]
by Francesco Fontemaggi with Carole Landry Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official are set to continue talks in New York on Thursday to try to salvage next month’s nuclear summit, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov flew into Pyongyang for discussions with Kim Jong Un. Kim Yong Chol, considered the North Korean leader’s right-hand man, is the most senior official […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday that it is “imperative” to completely dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, the White House said. The US and Japanese leaders will meet ahead of a much-anticipated summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un back on schedule for June 12 in Singapore just days after Trump announced he was canceling it. The American president said the […]
by Brian Knowlton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US and North Korean officials met Sunday at a border truce village as preparations resumed for a high-stakes, high-drama summit that President Donald Trump said held “brilliant potential” for the North. “I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day,” Trump said on Twitter. “Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It […]
(Eagle News) – United States ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, was called up from his assignment in the country to lead the US delegation to the border truce village in Panmunjom between North and South Korea on Sunday, May 28, in preparation for the planned historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This was according to a report by the Washington Post. Sung Kim, a former […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US delegation was holding talks with North Korean officials Sunday at a border truce village amid preparations for a summit between the two countries’ leaders, the State Department said. “A US delegation is in ongoing talks with North Korean officials at Panmunjom,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. “We continue to prepare for a meeting between the President and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.” The […]
by Jerome Cartillier/ with Park Chan-kyong in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump, a day after his cancellation of a high-stakes summit with North Korea, said Friday that the meeting with Kim Jong Un could still go ahead. “We’re going to see what happens,” Trump told reporters at the White House, after welcoming Pyongyang’s latest statement on the talks as “very good news.” “It could even be the […]
https://youtu.be/h0symg1TwJk People protest outside US embassy in Seoul after US President Donald Trump called off his planned June summit with Kim Jong Un. (Video courtesy Agence France Presse)
Asian markets mostly fell on Friday as Donald Trump shocked the world by pulling out of next month’s historic summit with Kim Jong Un, though analysts said the losses were tempered by hopes the talks can be rekindled. Traders had already been nervous in recent days after the US president warned he could pull out of the June 12 meeting with the North Korean leader, while also voicing his displeasure at a deal to […]
