Kim - Putin Summit: What's Different from Meetings with Trump? | DW News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un to a summit in the far eastern city of Vladivostok. The meeting is the first between the two leaders, and is a chance for Pyongyang to seek support from Moscow, especially when it comes to ending international sanctions imposed over North Korea's nuclear program. Just two months ago a summit with US president Donald Trump broke down over that topic. Before Kim and Putin went in to their private meeting, they talked about one of their major points of discussion, peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Jong-un Vows to Deliver 'Serious Blow' over Sanctions

THE GUARDIAN: North Korean leader says ‘hostile forces’ are determined to bring country to its knees

Kim Jong-un has vowed to deliver a “serious blow” to hostile countries he accused of using sanctions to bring the regime “to its knees”, according to the country’s state media.

The North Korean leader’s broadside against measures imposed in response to missile and nuclear programmes comes weeks after his second summit with Donald Trump ended in failure after they disagreed on how to match sanctions relief with progress on denuclearisation.

“We must deal a serious blow to the hostile forces who are mistakenly determined to bring us to our knees with sanctions by advancing the socialist construction to a high level of self-reliance that fits our circumstances and state, based on our own power, technology and resources,” Kim said, according to the state news agency KCNA. » | Justin McCurry and agencies | Thursday, April 11, 2019

North Korea Threatens to Scuttle Talks With the U.S. and Resume Tests

THE NEW YORK TIMES: North Korea threatened on Friday to suspend negotiations with the Trump administration over the North’s nuclear arms program and said its leader, Kim Jong-un, would soon decide whether to resume nuclear and missile tests.

Addressing diplomats and foreign correspondents at a news conference in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said that personal relations between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump were “still good and the chemistry is mysteriously wonderful.”

But she said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, had created an “atmosphere of hostility and mistrust” that thwarted the top leaders’ negotiations in Hanoi, Vietnam, last month.

After the Hanoi meeting ended without a deal, the North Korean leader had serious doubts about the merits of continuing negotiations with Mr. Trump, Ms. Choe said. » | Choe Sang-Hun | Friday, March 15, 2019

Cooper Slams Trump: His Idea of Leadership Is Not Normal

Otto Warmbier Parents Blame Kim for Son's Death and Reject Trump's 'Excuses'

THE GUARDIAN: Parents of American who died after Pyongyang detention say ‘Kim and his evil regime are responsible – no excuses can change that’

The parents of Otto Warmbier, a young American who was detained by North Korea for more than a year and died soon after his release in 2017, have rebuked Donald Trump’s defense of Kim Jong-un for the death of their son.

“We have been respectful during this summit process. Now we must speak out,” Fred and Cindy Warmbier wrote in a statement Friday, the morning after Trump returned from his summit with the North Korean leader in Vietnam, where the pair failed to reach a deal over US sanctions and nuclear weapons.

“Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. No excuses or lavish praise can change that.”

Trump received a fierce backlash, including from fellow Republicans, after he refused to blame Kim for Warmbier’s death, in response to a question during the president’s visit to Hanoi earlier this week, about how it affected his relationship with Kim. » | Lauren Aratani in New York | Friday, March 1, 2019

Otto Warmbier's Family Rebukes Trump for Siding with North Korea

The family of Otto Warmbier rebuked President Donald Trump for siding with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who denied knowledge of their son's maltreatment during his imprisonment.

Joe: President Donald Trump Appeases Yet Another Dictator | Morning Joe | MSNBC

As the president and North Korea are at odds over the reason for a breakdown in talks, Trump is receiving criticism from both sides of the aisle for saying he believed Kim Jong Un regarding the death of Otto Warmbier.

Why Did the Trump-Kim Summit Break Down? | Inside Story

'Sometimes you have to walk.' This was how US president Donald Trump described the sudden end to his summit with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.

The pair arrived in Vietnam with hopes of building on last year's historic summit in Singapore. However, less than two days later, they signed no agreement, and it's unclear when they'll talk again.

North Korea's neighbours South Korea and China both said they were disappointed with the outcome. So what went wrong? And where does it leave the nuclear threat from North Korea?

Presenter: Hoda Abdel-Hamid | Guests: Se-Woong Koo - Publisher, Korea Expose; Robert Gutsche - Associate Professor at Lancaster University; Emil Dall - Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Specialist on Nuclear Proliferation

Trump: I Took Kim at His Word over Otto Warmbier's Torture

THE GUARDIAN: President says he believes North Korean leader knew nothing about treatment of US student

Donald Trump has said he took Kim Jong-un “at his word” when he denied any responsibility in the imprisonment and torture of Otto Warmbier that led to the US student’s death in 2017.

“Some really bad things happened to Otto,” Trump said. “But Kim tells me that he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word.”

Although Kim wields tremendous power in one of the world’s last totalitarian regimes, Trump said he believed the North Korean leader was not aware of Warmbier’s imprisonment in January 2016 and torture in jail until it was too late.

“I don’t believe he knew about it. He felt very badly about it, I did speak to him. He knew about it, but he knew about it after,” Trump said. North Korea, he went on, was a “big country” with “a lot of people in those prisons and the camps – there are some bad people”. » | Juliaan Borger in Hanoi | Thursday, February 28, 2019

Donald Trump Hails ‘Great Leader’ Kim Jong-un at Hanoi Summit

THE GUARDIAN: US president flatters North Korean counterpart and offers economic help if he disarms

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have begun their second summit, with the US president calling his North Korean counterpart “a great leader” and offering to help give his country a “tremendous future”.

The two leaders advanced towards each other and shook hands in front of a dozen US and North Korean flags, set up in the Metropole hotel in Hanoi, in a tableau almost identical to the backdrop at their first meeting, eight months ago in Singapore.

In his remarks to the press, Trump addressed criticism that the first summit had not lived up to his claims that it was a breakthrough that would lead to North Korea’s disarmament and end the nuclear threat the country posed.

“It is an honour to be with Chairman Kim. It’s an honour to be together in a country, Vietnam, where they have rolled out the red carpet and they are very honoured to have us,” the US president told reporters as the two men sat alongside each other before brief introductory talks. » | Julian Borger in Hanoi | Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Trump Calls Off Pompeo's North Korea Trip over Lack of Progress

Citing insufficient progress on the issue of denuclearization, President Donald Trump nixed plans for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to make what would have been his fourth visit to North Korea.

Trump Says North Korea 'No Longer a Nuclear Threat'; Not Everyone Agrees

Donald Trump says the Singapore summit ended North Korea's nuclear threat. Is his claim premature? Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) and Asia expert Mike Chinoy weigh in. Then, "Gatekeepers" author Chris Whipple on John Kelly's future at The White House.

China: North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un Is in Beijing for Talks with Xi Jinping

Susan Rice: Kim Jong-un Beat Trump at Summit

Susan Rice. a national security adviser to former President Obama, says that North Korea's Kim Jong Un won the summit with President Donald Trump, because Kim was able gain prestige and got Trump to end “war games” on the Korean peninsula while committing to less than previous North Korean leaders.

Trump Jealous of Kim Jong-un

Will the Singapore Summit Be the Beginning of a New Era? | Inside Story

Donald Trump has become the first US president to meet and shake hands with a North Korean leader. After months of speculation and threats, the two men met on Singapore's Sentosa island.

They held a 40-minute meeting, followed by a signing of a joint statement in which they agreed to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. But it was a document vague in detail and lacking a time frame. So, what will the North Korean leader get in return for agreeing to 'denuclearise'?

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Scott Snyder - Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on US-Korea Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations; Tai Wei Lim - Adjunct Research Fellow for the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore; Victor Gao - Director of the China National Association of International Studies

'I Do Trust Him': Trump Reflects on Kim Meeting

ABC News George Stephanopoulos spoke to President Donald Trump in an exclusive interview about his historic meeting with Kim Jong Un.

Lawrence: President Trump Accomplished 'Nothing' at Summit with Kim Jong-un | The Last Word | MSNBC

Lawrence reacts to Donald Trump saying the murderous dictator of North Korea "loves his people." Nicholas Kristof says Trump is acting like a "spokesman" for North Korea by praising the country's dictator. John Heilemann and James Fallows break down what Trump failed to get at the summit.

Trump Halts War Games, Floats Troop Pullout in Korea

At the Singapore summit, President Trump announced a halt to U.S. war games on the Korean peninsula and said he wants to withdraw American troops. But if he does, he'll face stiff resistance from Congress and Pentagon, warns author James Dorsey

Who Will Pay for North Korea's Hotel Bill?

The Washington Post reports North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is asking for another nation to pay for his hotel bill during the historic summit between the US and North Korea in Singapore.