President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un meet in Vietnam

A top adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in says there’s more than a 70 percent chance the US and North Korea will strike an agreement either on nuclear weapons or their relationship by the year’s end.

That’s the main takeaway from my hour-long talk in Seoul last week with Moon Chung-in, who is so trusted by the South Korean leader that he was named the next ambassador to the US this year. He declined the offer, choosing instead to remain in his current post as a special aide on national security, foreign affairs, and unification.

A top Trump administration official has all but admitted that the US stance toward North Korea talks is now a hardline one.

What this means, some analysts say, is that the American position will sink any chance for progress in US-North Korea negotiations over ending its nuclear program.

North Korea is rebuilding a satellite launch site it promised to entirely dismantle, and may have increased activity at a major missile factory — both actions that are likely meant to be warning signs to the United States and South Korea.

Should these moves be a precursor to even more aggressive actions by Pyongyang, or anger President Donald Trump, then the US and North Korea could end up moving away from diplomacy and back on the path to war.

The aftermath of President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s unsuccessful summit in Vietnam last week has been nothing short of startling.

On Saturday, the American and South Korean military defense heads agreed to end two major military exercises between their countries — all in an effort to reduce tensions with North Korea. Indeed, it’s likely to delight Kim, who has long railed against the military drills as preparation for a US-led invasion of North Korea.

President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un’s Vietnam summit didn’t go quite as planned.

On Thursday, both leaders walked away from the high-stakes, two-day meeting without a denuclearization deal. Trump told reporters that it was because North Korea wanted “sanctions lifted in their entirety” — a concession the US wasn’t willing to give.

North Korea is disputing part of President Donald Trump’s account of why he walked away from a deal with Kim Jong Un at their summit in Vietnam — and is hinting that Kim may be souring on the negotiating process with the United States.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters Thursday that North Korea had only asked the US for partial sanctions relief, and had offered a “realistic proposal” on denuclearization. According to Bloomberg News, North Korea had specifically requested a batch of sanctions imposed by a series of UN resolutions in 2016 and 2017 be lifted.

During President Donald Trump’s summit-ending news conference in Vietnam on Thursday, a reporter asked him if he’d confronted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un about the treatment of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was imprisoned in North Korea for 15 months, only to return to the US in a comatose state in June 2017 and never recover.

The reporter noted that despite Warmbier’s brutal death, Trump has called Kim “my friend” and repeatedly boasted about their “great relationship.” The journalist then asked him, “Have you in Singapore [during the first Trump-Kim summit] or here confronted Kim Jong Un about Otto Warmbier’s death, asked him to take responsibility, and what did he say to you?”

In an interview with the Washington Post last November, President Donald Trump explained why he thinks he knows more than some experts: “I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”

His “gut” clearly guided him during his effort to compel North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to dismantle his nuclear program — and we just saw how it backfired.

On February 28, President Donald Trump held a press conference with hundreds of reporters in Hanoi, Vietnam, after his historic discussions with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended without a deal.

During the 35-minute session, he detailed why he didn’t make an agreement with the dictator and why he’s still hopeful they can strike an accord in the future, and even discussed major world events, like the current escalation between India and Pakistan. But mainly, Trump defended why he felt it was right not sign a pact with Kim — at least for now.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un won’t sign a deal in Vietnam after all.

In an abrupt change, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Trump’s press conference, originally scheduled for around 4 am, will now start two hours earlier. But that’s when Trump and Kim planned to host a signing ceremony for a potential agreement like they did last year in Singapore. About an hour after that, Sanders told reporters in Hanoi, “No agreement was reached at this time, but their respective teams look forward to meeting in the future.”

President Donald Trump keeps saying that North Korea has the potential to become a great economic power if only it would part with its nuclear arsenal. But there’s a problem: Trump is ignoring one of the biggest things that would actually bring more wealth and prosperity to the severely impoverished nation: human rights.

Trump is currently meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their second summit, this time held in Vietnam. The president’s main goal at the two-day meeting is to convince Kim to give up the nuclear program it took his country decades to build.

President Donald Trump is mere hours away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. They’re meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, to continue talks over ending North Korea’s nuclear program.

As of now, it appears the two leaders may sign a peace declaration symbolically ending the Korean War, and agree to a deal in which the US lifts some sanctions on North Korea in exchange for a commitment from Kim to close down a key nuclear facility.

President Donald Trump is apparently not thrilled that his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who is testifying before Congress Wednesday, is upstaging Trump’s big diplomatic extravaganza with North Korean leader Kim Jong in Vietnam.

Cohen, who pleaded guilty to financial crimes, bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress and is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence in May, is appearing before the House Oversight Committee at 10 am Eastern — right after Trump wrapped up his first day of pageantry with Kim at their summit in Hanoi, Vietnam.

A proposed outline of a deal that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may sign during their Vietnam summit this week would be “a bad deal for the United States.”

That’s not the view of a cynical expert, or a Democrat. It’s the view of a top national security adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are making history — again.

The two leaders just shook hands as they began their second summit, this time in Vietnam. Trump has a tough task ahead: convincing Kim to rid his nation of a nuclear program it took decades to build. It’s a goal that US intelligence agencies think the president is unlikely to achieve.