Kim Jong Un has passed through the border city of Dandong en route to his highly anticipated Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump. Passing over the Friendship Bridge that crosses from North Korea into the PRC, Kim’s heavily-armoured luxury train was not expected to stop for very long in the Chinese city. Dandong was… Full Story »
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What to expect when Trump and Kim sit down together in Hanoi?
Next week President of the United States Donald Trump will meet with supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, to undertake the second summit between the two leaders since their historic meeting at Singapore last year. Both parties will enter this summit with very different expectations and political goals, but will… Full Story »
Opinion: Who can claim victory after the Trump-Kim summit?
Tom Fowdy, a postgraduate student of Chinese studies at Oxford University, gives his take on this week’s meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un… Despite fears and upsets, the long-awaited Trump-Kim summit came. The world gazed as two serving leaders of North Korea and the United States met together for the first time in… Full Story »
A brief history: American and North Korean relations
Things are looking up on the DPRK-US front: for the first time in history, a sitting president has met with the chairman of the DPRK, in what has already become a politically momentous event. For the first time in the DPRK’s history, it seems that the USA is finally willing to both recognise them and… Full Story »
Philippines welcomes ‘successful’ summit between Trump and Kim
The Philippines has commended the US and North Korea for the “successful” summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore. The two leaders signed a joint document today (Tuesday, June 12) stating their full commitment to working “toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula”. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs expressed… Full Story »
