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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly brought his personal toilet with him to his historic meeting with President Donald Trump. Kim's arrival in Singapore was preceded by the arrival of a IL-76 cargo plane carrying essential supplies, including a "portable toilet that will deny determined sewer divers insights into to the supreme leader's stools," South Korea's Chosun Ilbo reported Monday.
For Iran, the so-called "Axis of Evil" has boiled down to a party of one, as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares for direct talks with North Korea. With former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein overthrown and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un now preparing for a planned summit in Singapore with Trump, Iran remains the last renegade among former President George W. Bush's grouping of nations opposed to the U.S. For those in Tehran, whether hard-liners, reformists or people simply trying to get by in Iran's worsening economy, it's head-spinning, especially after seeing Trump pull America out of the nuclear deal with world powers.
Donald Trump is scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday in Singapore after a year of turbulent foreign-policy maneuvers built on the U.S. president's willingness to take outsize risks. He has riled European leaders by quitting the international nuclear deal with Iran , is threatening tariffs and other punitive trade measures against allies and is contemplating a summit with a perennial U.S. adversary, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana or presidential palace on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in Singapore. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks towards Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during their bilateral meeting at the Istana or presidential palace on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in Singapore.
President Donald Trump's slapdash, on-again-off-again summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday will hand the North Korean dictator a diplomatic coup that his father and grandfather never achieved. In North Korea's 70-year history, none of the ruling Kims have met with a sitting American president.
President Trump should avoid letting himself be photographed too much with Kim Jong Un as the two meet during a historic summit in Singapore this week, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson said on "Fox News Sunday."
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks towards Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during their bilateral meeting at the Istana or presidential palace on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in Singapore. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana or presidential palace on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in Singapore.
Senate Armed Service Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham arrives for a meeting about immigration, Jan. 24, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. A leading Republican senator and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the U.S. has only two options with North Korea, "peace or war." Add North Korea as an interest to stay up to date on the latest North Korea news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Heading into his North Korea summit with characteristic bravado, President Donald Trump says he is ready to negotiate an accord with Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2010, file photo, released by China's Xinhua news agency, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, center, arrives at Pyongyang international airport in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.
In Kim's attempt to unleash the economy and hold on to his dictatorship, he seems to be taking a lesson from China's Communist Party: change, or die. In the city of Pyongyang, the sanctum sanctorum of the Workers' Party of Korea, there are changes afoot that would have vexed Stalin.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen raises concerns that President Donald Trump will promise too much and pin too much on one meeting with North Korea's dictator, in terms of long-sought efforts for denuclearization. New Hampshire's senior senator spoke at length with Morning Edition host Rick Ganley about the negotiations set for next week in Singapore.
A meeting with Putin would seem to be a perfect next act for a President who has embraced personal diplomacy with American adversaries as the signature of his foreign policy. off his closely watched Singapore summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un , President Trump is pushing his team to arrange another dramatic one-on-one meeting, this time with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin , as soon as this summer.
President Trump won't be visiting any casinos in Singapore next week, but he will be pursuing the longest of long shots: Total denuclearization of North Korea. Few observers of a decades-long standoff between the United States and North Korea believe that Kim Jong Un will ever completely give up nuclear weapons, and that is probably Trump's biggest challenge when he meets with Kim next week in Singapore.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump spent a meeting at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters discussing a number of varying subjects - except the main subject he was there to discuss: hurricane season preparedness Details about what Trump discussed instead at the meeting were recorded in an audio obtained by The Washington Post , which included this paragraph that summarized the details: But President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party's fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
FILE PHOTO: A combination photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Washignton, DC, U.S. May 17, 2018 and in Panmunjom, South Korea, April 27, 2018 respectively. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque and Korea Summit Press Pool/File Photos The White House said on Monday its policy of tough sanctions on North Korea has not changed, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he no longer wanted to use the phrase "maximum pressure" to describe the campaign to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
US Democrats on Monday urged President Donald Trump not to squander the "historic" opportunity of a face-to-face summit with North Korea's leader, as the lawmakers opposed any easing of sanctions without complete and verifiable denuclearization. Affirming their support for Trump's scheduled June 12 meeting with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, seven influential Democrats including Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump against signing a deal at any cost, and laid out conditions they want met before any agreement is struck.
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It - Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says. - WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone North Korea's top three military officials replaced, U.S. official says - WASHINGTON - North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet on June 12 in Singapore.
As Congress returns from a ten day legislative break, lawmakers come back to Capitol Hill facing a series of politcally explosive topics, ranging from the President's diplomatic overtures to North Korea, to his controversial moves to slap tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from Europe, Mexico and Canada, and how best to deal with the hot button issue of illegal immigration. Bubbling underneath all of that as well, continues to be the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, as the White House continues to question the probe being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Just over a week after he called it off, President Trump announced this afternoon that the June 12th Summit in Singapore was back on. Just over a week after he sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un canceling the planned summit in Singapore, P resident Trump announced that the meeting was back on after a longer than expected meeting with a top North Korean official in the Oval Office: WASHINGTON - President Trump announced Friday that the summit meeting he had canceled with North Korea's leader would be held this month after all, the latest head-spinning twist in a nuclear-edged diplomatic drama that has captivated and confused much of the world.
Amid uncertainty over whether the North Korea summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will occur on June 12, former New Mexico Governor and North Korea negotiator - Bill Richardson - says that there is a 60-40 percent chance that the historic meeting will not only happen but also produce a positive outcome. Add North Korea as an interest to stay up to date on the latest North Korea news, video, and analysis from ABC News.