Inside the summit: Talks with ‘aliens,’ familiar frustration
June 15, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump got the history-making handshake he wanted with North Korea's Kim Jong Un...
White House: Trump salute to NK general ‘a common courtesy’
June 15, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday defended President Donald Trump's decision to return a military salute to a North Korean three-star general...
After summit, North Korea shows Trump in striking new light
June 15, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans are getting a new look at President Donald Trump. They see him shaking hands with Kim Jong Un at their historic summit in Singapore, and even awkwardly saluting a three-star general...
Trump claim raises eyebrows: NKorea no longer a nuke threat?
June 14, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — America and the world can "sleep well tonight," President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday, boasting that his summit with Kim Jong Un had ended any nuclear threat from North Korea though the meeting produced no details on how or when weapons might be eliminated or even reduced.
Trump claim raises eyebrows: NKorea no longer a nuke threat?
June 13, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — America and the world can "sleep well tonight," President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday, boasting that his summit with Kim Jong Un had ended any nuclear threat from North Korea though the meeting produced no details on how or when weapons might be eliminated or even reduced...
North Korea lauds, and basks in, Kim’s summit performance
June 13, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The news on television and the front page of the ruling Workers' Party newspaper was something North Koreans never would have imagined just months ago — their leader Kim Jong Un warmly shaking hands with President Donald Trump...
A look at N. Korea’s human rights abuses Trump played down
June 13, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It was just months ago when President Donald Trump used his first State of the Union address to condemn the cruelty of North Korea's government...
Iran deal comparisons cloud Trump’s North Korea summit
June 13, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's triumphant assertions about the success of the unprecedented Singapore summit are being met with skepticism and outright derision from critics seizing on the contradiction between his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and his willingness to accept vague pledges from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump sees ‘new future’ for North Korea, but path unclear
June 13, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump wrapped up his five-hour nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with surprisingly warm words and hope for "a bright new future" for Kim's isolated and impoverished nation...
Made-for-TV summit puts Trump the Showman in spotlight
June 13, 2018 GMTAndersen Air Force Base, GUAM (AP) — From the staged handshake before a watching world, to the debut of an infomercial about an imagined North Korea, the summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un was a made-for-the-cameras production...
Trump contradicts US military stance on Korea war games
June 13, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's abrupt announcement that he will suspend U.S. military drills in South Korea appeared to catch the Pentagon and the Seoul government flat-footed, and it contradicted a pillar of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' campaign to make U...
AP Analysis: Kim Jong Un got lots to brag about from summit
June 13, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — All North Korean leader Kim Jong Un really needed from his unprecedented summit with U...
AP Analysis: Trump retreats from US moral leadership stance
June 12, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Beaming in the moments after his summit with Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump was asked about North Korea's history of human rights horrors...
For Trump and Kim, maybe the spectacle is what truly counted
June 12, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Put aside the "deliverables" and the "outcomes" and the "takeaways." Put aside, for argument's sake, the question of what was actually accomplished, at least in the way that we usually use the word...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorted history on North Korea
June 12, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump celebrated his historic summit with North Korea's leader Tuesday with remarks that twisted history and raised false hope that the remains of all missing Americans from the Korean War will be coming home...
Trump being Trump: Greatest hits from his press conference
June 12, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Not surprisingly, President Donald Trump's first official solo press conference in 16 months strayed from convention. He talked up North Korea's beachfront property as ideal for condo developments and declared the estimated 100,000 political prisoners in North Korea's gulag as the real winners of the U.S.-North Korea summit.
Trump-Kim talks inspire glee, cautious optimism, skepticism
June 12, 2018 GMTBERLIN (AP) — While South Koreans cheered with hope and China saw an opening to discuss lifting sanctions on North Korea, some countries in Europe and the Mideast cautioned Tuesday that it was premature to judge U...
Trump shows Kim a video laying out the stakes of summit
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump, the former reality television star with a knack for theatrics, tried a dose of Hollywood drama as he sought to sway North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their historic summit...
White House restricts US press access to Kim Jong Un summit
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — The White House restricted journalists' access to parts of President Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un on Tuesday despite long-standing arrangements intended to ensure the public is kept fully abreast of key presidential moments, such as the first meeting in history with a North Korean leader.
Summit Day: What happened at historic Trump-Kim meeting?
June 12, 2018 GMTIt was the greatest show on earth — at least for today and according to its main protagonists, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
Trump and Kim shake hands in scene complex as their rivalry
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Donald Trump approached from the right, striding down the long portico at the colonial-era Singapore resort...
What Kim’s suit, shoes and hairstyle tell us about him
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Kim Jong Un was clad in his favorite Mao-style suit, wore the same horn-rimmed glasses and maintained his trademark high-cut hairstyle...
Check out my ride: Trump shows Kim Jong Un ‘The Beast’
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Just a couple of guys talking cars — while the world watches.
President Donald Trump offered North Korea leader Kim Jong Un a rare glimpse inside the presidential limousine known as "The Beast" on Tuesday as their historic summit in Singapore wound down...
‘I’m so happy’: Dennis Rodman weeps as Trump and Kim meet
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman openly wept on television in a live interview from Singapore on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met for the first time...
Kim’s summit entourage includes 4 women, elderly lieutenants
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Much attention will be on Kim Jong Un at his historic summit Tuesday with President Donald Trump...
Singapore Postcard: Summit adds value to North Korea’s coins
June 12, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Stamped with images of "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung, national monuments or even ballistic missiles, coins minted in North Korea are renowned among collectors for their scarcity, partly due to international sanctions that outlaw them from being auctioned...
At Trump-Kim summit, human rights is a back-burner issue
June 12, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said it himself to Congress and the American people: "No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea...
10 historic moments in relations between US, North Korea
June 11, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are in Singapore for a summit Tuesday morning that will be the first of its kind between leaders of the rival nations...
Kim Jong Un could give up ICBMs but keep some nuclear forces
June 11, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After years of effort to develop nuclear missiles that can target the U...
North Korea gets first big dose of Trump summit news
June 11, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans got their first big dose of news Monday that their leader Kim Jong Un had arrived in Singapore for what even the state-run media was calling a historic meeting with U...
Analysis: Wit, wisdom are likely tactics from Kim’s playbook
June 11, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Dry wit. Disarming humility. An appreciation for wiggle room, and lots of it...
The Latest: Trump meeting Singapore PM ahead of Kim summit
June 11, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — The Latest on a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Singapore (all times local):...
Final preparations begin for Trump-Kim high-stakes summit
June 11, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Final preparations are underway in Singapore for Tuesday's historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including a plan for the leaders to kick things off by meeting with only their translators present, a U...
In eye of storm, North Koreans sees scant news of Kim’s trip
June 11, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With all the attention focused on Singapore and the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang must be buzzing with excitement, right...
Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit
June 11, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Spare a moment, as you anticipate one of the most unusual summits in modern history, to consider North Korea's leader as he left the all-encompassing bubble of his locked-down stronghold of Pyongyang on Sunday and stepped off a jet onto Singapore soil for his planned sit-down with President Donald Trump on Tuesday...
Fox News host sorry for calling Trump, Kim ‘two dictators’
June 10, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News host has accidentally referred to the highly anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a meeting of "two dictators...
Unorthodox Trump faces toughest test yet in NKorea summit
June 10, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Embarking on a self-described "mission of peace," President Donald Trump puts his seat-of-the-pants foreign policy to its toughest test yet as he attempts this week to personally broker an end to North Korea's nuclear program in talks with Kim Jong Un...
Iran, spurned by US, angrily watches Trump-North Korea talks
June 10, 2018 GMTTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For Iran, the so-called "Axis of Evil" has boiled down to a party of one, as President Donald Trump prepares for direct talks with North Korea...
Singapore Postcard: Summit island hides macabre history
June 10, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — A new surveillance camera was installed and restaurants closed on Singapore's Sentosa Island, a popular tropical getaway thrust into the spotlight ahead of a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
Analysis: What to look for at US-North Korea summit
June 10, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — There will be a lot of spin going on when President Donald Trump emerges from his summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday...
Timeline: How the Trump-Kim summit came together
June 10, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday will kick off a potentially lengthy diplomatic process to try to resolve the standoff over Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons...
Trump casts North Korea summit as ‘one-time shot’ for Kim
June 10, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump cast his Tuesday summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un as a "one-time shot" for the autocratic leader to ditch his nuclear weapons and enter the community of nations, saying he would know within moments if Kim is serious about the talks...
Tough talk: US envoys on how to negotiate with North Korea
June 9, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un may be unprecedented, but during a quarter-century of on-off nuclear talks with North Korea, U...
Many have their doubts about Trump-Kim summit
June 9, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The self-proclaimed master dealmaker is facing doubts from multiple corners as he prepares to negotiate with Kim Jong Un...
Family with Trump-like ambition runs hotel hosting summit
June 9, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Singapore coastal hotel where President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plan to meet on Tuesday is overseen by a wealthy Singapore family whose real estate development firm is pushing into the competitive upscale resort realm where Trump's own company operates...
Can Trump and Kim end Korean War?
June 9, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Long a dream of Koreans on both sides of the world's most heavily armed border, a peace treaty that finally ends the 68-year-old (and still counting) Korean War is now being hinted at by President Donald Trump ahead of his summit Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
Singapore Postcard: Trouble with doubles and media frenzy
June 9, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — The small island nation of Singapore, which prides itself on law and order, is feeling the pressure of more than 3,000 members of the press arriving for a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
Closing North Korea’s vast nuclear program poses challenges
June 9, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An unknown number of nuclear warheads. Stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium...
Worried, hopeful and wary: Neighbors await Kim-Trump summit
June 9, 2018 GMTTOKYO (AP) — North Korea's East Asia neighbors — Japan, China and South Korea — have a shared goal of denuclearizing the peninsula, but what may come out of Tuesday's summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un has different and possibly conflicting implications for their security, economic and geopolitical interests.
Kim Jong Un impersonator questioned on arrival in Singapore
June 9, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — A Kim Jong Un lookalike was detained and questioned upon his arrival in Singapore on Friday, days before a summit between the North Korean leader and President Donald Trump...
Trump plays down need for preparation for Kim summit
June 8, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into his North Korea summit with characteristic bravado, President Donald Trump says that "attitude" is more important than preparation as he looks to negotiate an accord with Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula...
Reality check on optimism swirling around Trump-Kim summit
June 8, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It may be the strangest feeling in decades to descend on the Korean Peninsula — a wave of optimism, and not always of the cautious variety, when it comes to North Korea and its nuclear bombs...
Singapore Postcard: Trump cocktails, Kim tacos anyone?
June 8, 2018 GMTSINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore is a city that takes great pride in its food, so it should be no surprise that enterprising restaurateurs are using next week's historic summit between U...
South Koreans feel hope and doubt ahead of Trump-Kim summit
June 8, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The on-again, off-again meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been an emotional roller coaster for South Koreans, who now await Tuesday's historic summit with both hope and doubt.
Trump says Kim summit all about attitude, not preparation
June 7, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into his North Korea summit with characteristic bravado, President Donald Trump said Thursday that "attitude" is more important than preparation as he looks to negotiate an accord with Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula...
Kim’s charm offensive may benefit his army if sanctions ease
June 7, 2018 GMTTOKYO (AP) — While raising hopes for denuclearization and a peace treaty to finally end the Korean War, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's newly found focus on diplomacy comes with an ironic flipside: It could be a godsend for his generals...
Trump takes his own brand of diplomacy to North Korea summit
June 7, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — He hectored Mexico's leader over border wall funding. Lobbed statistics at the Canadian leader without checking his facts. Cajoled the British prime minister to crack down on protesters...
Secluded resort chosen for Trump-Kim summit in Singapore
June 6, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet at a luxury resort on Sentosa Island for nuclear talks next week in Singapore, the White House said Tuesday.
The historic meeting will be held at the Capella Hotel, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted.