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North Korea Plans &#39;Spectacle&#39; at Mount Mantap
North Korea
Plans 'Spectacle'
at Mount Mantap
the rundown
May 21, 2018 9:20 AM CDT

North Korea Plans 'Spectacle' at Mount Mantap

It's supposed to destroy nuke site as journalists look on this week

(Newser) - The world's last active underground nuclear testing site is set to meet its end this week. North Korea intends to close the Punggye-ri facility beneath Mount Mantap between Wednesday and Friday, depending on the weather, and journalists from five outside countries have been invited to attend and observe. The...

Trump: Kim Jong Un Could Suffer Same Fate as Gadhafi

But that's only if there's no deal, he says

(Newser) - President Trump and national security adviser John Bolton are apparently not on the same page when it comes to the "Libya model"—and the confusion led to what was seen as a stern threat to North Korea Thursday. When asked about Bolton's suggestion that the 2003 Libya...

North Korea Follows One Threat With a Second
North Korea Follows
One Threat With a Second
the rundown
May 16, 2018 6:37 AM CDT

North Korea Follows One Threat With a Second

Warns it'll ax June 12 summit with Trump if denuclearization talk keeps up

(Newser) - North Korea is ratcheting up its threats—and potentially inching away from the table. After canceling high-level talks with South Korea planned for Wednesday and warning the US it could cancel Kim Jong Un's meeting with President Trump over joint military exercises between the US and South Korea, another...

Trump Welcomes N. Korea's 'Gracious Gesture'

Kim will close nuke test site in less than 2 weeks

(Newser) - President Trump welcomed North Korea's vow on Saturday to dismantle its nuclear test site in less than two weeks as a "gracious gesture" that would set up the US-North Korea summit. North Korea's Foreign Ministry said all tunnels at the country's testing ground will be destroyed...

Trump Announces Site of Summit With Kim Jong Un

They will meet in Singapore on June 12

(Newser) - The time and date are set: President Trump will meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. "We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!" Trump tweeted Thursday morning, providing details for the first time about the...

Trump Rules Out DMZ as Site of Meeting With Kim
Trump: Kim and I
Not Meeting at DMZ
May 9, 2018 12:47 PM CDT

Trump: Kim and I Not Meeting at DMZ

Says date, location will be announced within 3 days

(Newser) - President Trump says the date and location of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be released within the next three days, but it won't be held in the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea. "We're just working arrangements" before the announcement...

Pompeo Seemingly Stumbles on Kim Jong Un's Name

NYT reports he referred to 'Chairman Un' while en route to North Korea

(Newser) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is making his second visit to Pyongyang and South Korean officials say he will probably bring three detained Americans home with him. Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang Wednesday for meetings with Kim Jong Chol, director of the North's agency for inter-Korean relations, reports Reuters . An...

Xi Has Surprise Meeting With Kim, Then a Call With Trump

Xi Jinping met a second time with Kim Jong Un

(Newser) - China says President Xi Jinping has met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a northern Chinese port city. The meeting, held Monday and Tuesday in Dalian, is the second between the two men in recent weeks , following Kim's March visit to Beijing, his first since taking power...

DPRK Says Trump Boasting Threatens Truce With South

Pyongyang doesn't like hearing Trump take credit for talks with South Korea

(Newser) - With just weeks to go before President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to hold their first-ever summit, Pyongyang on Sunday criticized what it called "misleading" claims that Trump's policy of maximum political pressure and sanctions are what drove the North to the...

Kim Jong Un Makes Symbolic Move With Clocks

North changes its time zone to match the South's

(Newser) - North Korea readjusted its time zone to match South Korea's on Saturday and described the change as an early step toward helping the longtime rivals "become one" following a landmark summit. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised to sync his country's time zone with the South'...

Report: 3 Americans Held in North Korea Have Been Moved

South Korean activist indicates the plan is to release the men

(Newser) - North Korea may be preparing to hand President Trump a major diplomatic victory ahead of his summit with Kim Jong Un, according to a South Korean activist with contacts north of the border. South Korean reports have quoted Choi Sung-ryong as saying three detained Americans have been shifted from labor...

Kim Jong Un's Changed Habit Attracts Notice

His lack of cigarettes in South Korea was conspicuous

(Newser) - To understand what a seemingly committed smoker Kim Jong Un is, the Guardian offers this: He's been photographed with cigarette in hand while touring a school and a children's hospital. And so his nicotine-related choices while meeting with South Korean president Moon Jae-in on Friday are attracting notice:...

Dennis Rodman: My Gift Helped Lead to Korean Summit

He gave Kim Jong Un a copy of Trump's book 'Art of the Deal'

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman has been striving for a diplomatic solution regarding the Korean Peninsula going back to Obama , claiming he knows exactly what North Korea needs. And now that last week's summit has concluded with promises to end the war between the two nations and work toward "complete denuclearization,...

North Korea Will Change Its Time Zone This Week

It's another conciliatory gesture

(Newser) - South Korea will remove propaganda-broadcasting loudspeakers from the border with North Korea this week, officials said Monday, as the rivals move to follow through with their leaders' summit declaration that produced reconciliation steps without a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff. During their historic meeting Friday at a Korean border village,...

North Korea: We'll Give Up All Nukes on One Condition

Kim Jong Un makes dramatic offer privately

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Friday that he would totally denuclearize if America declares the Korean War over and promises not to invade the North, the New York Times reports. Kim made the remarkable statement to South Korean President Moon Jae-in when they met in a village on...

Kim Jong Un Bringing &#39;Personal Toilet&#39; to South Korea
Kim Jong Un Bringing
'Personal Toilet' to South Korea
THE RUNDOWN
Apr 26, 2018 8:54 AM CDT

Kim Jong Un Bringing 'Personal Toilet' to South Korea

It's not an issue of hygiene at carefully planned summit

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un won't be taking any chances Friday when the North Korean leader crosses the border for a historic summit with his counterpart in the South. Apparently that means bringing along his own toilet. Accompanied by his sister, Kim Yo Jong, top military officials, and armed soldiers from...

A Dot on a Mousse Dish Is Angering Japan

And more on the meal that will be served to Kim Jong Un Friday

(Newser) - Ahead of Kim Jong Un's high-stakes meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in over the future of his nukes comes the repetition of one word: rosti. It has nothing to do with nukes. Rather, it's a Swiss fried potato dish that South Korea plans to "re-interpret" and...

Kim Expresses 'Bitter Sorrow' After Crash Kills 32 Tourists

Chinese citizens died when bus plunged off bridge

(Newser) - A crash that killed 32 tourists from North Korea's chief ally brought "bitter sorrow" to the heart of leader Kim Jong Un, according to Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency. The agency—in a rare admission of bad news—said the Chinese tourists and four North Koreans were...

S. Korea Just Tried to 'Create a Peaceful Mood' With the North

Propaganda loudspeakers near border silenced before summit between 2 nations this week

(Newser) - The last top-level meeting between North and South Korea took place 11 years ago, and tensions have since "risen dramatically," per the Los Angeles Times . And so South Korea is offering an olive branch ahead of this week's summit, silencing the speakers it uses along the border...

Trump Aides Aren't Buying North Korean Olive Branch

It's just a modest offer, they say

(Newser) - President Trump's aides aren't exactly buying all the good vibes around Pyongyang's offer to freeze nuclear weapons testing, the Washington Post reports. Unnamed by the Post, these aides see Kim Jong Un's promise to stop tests and close a nuclear facility as important for what it'...

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