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Aa Aa Summit breakdown High hopes in Hanoi come crashing down as US President Donald Trump walks away from Kim Jong Un. The summit between the US and North Korean leaders ended without a deal after Kim insisted that the US lift all sanctions on the country. The main goal of the summit was to shut down one of North Korea's biggest nuclear plants. While the summit in Hanoi didn't achieve this, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to reaching such an agreement, saying: "Speed is not important to me. What is important is that we do the right deal." Nuclear fears From North Korea and Iran to Pakistan and India — are we in a new era of nuclear proliferation? After the US-North Korea summit in Hanoi ended with no promises of denuclearisation, some have begun to worry that nuclear weapons may once again become a pressing threat. As the US and Russia have pledged to withdraw from the INF treaty, global worries have only grown. Hitting a bad note After 15 years of participation, Ukraine has made the decision to step aside from this year's Eurovision Song Contest amid a controversial contractual disagreement with its nominee. Watch Thursday's full Raw Politics episode by clicking on the player above.

President Donald Trump defended North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un when confronted Thursday about American college student Otto Warmbier, who died days after he was repatriated from the pariah state with brain damage. “He tells me he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word,” Trump said of how he could continue calling the young dictator “my friend.” Trump said he has talked to Kim about Warmbier, and that Kim “feels very badly.” “I don’t believe that he would have allowed that to happen. It just wasn’t to his advantage,” Trump added. “Those prisons are rough, rough places and bad things happen.” The Brief Newsletter Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. View Sample Sign Up Now Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, was touring North Korea when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a propaganda sign. He was sentenced to fifteen years hard labor. North Korean officials have said Warmbier suffered a brain injury after contracting botulism, a form of poisoning, but U.S. doctors found no evidence of the condition. After Warmbier’s death, Trump vowed to press North Korea on its abysmal human rights record. But as Trump has sought to seal the denuclearization of North Korea in talks with Kim, the issue has been relegated to the back burner. Human rights was not on the agenda at either of the summits, although in Singapore Trump briefly said the meeting wouldn’t have happened without Warmbier.

Hannity sits down with President Trump following the conclusion of his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. #FoxandFriends #FoxNews #VietnamSummit FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News…

The entire country of Vietnam is suffering from PTSD after it was visited by President Donald Trump, according to local sources. Every single one of the 95 million people living in Vietnam is said to be suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing Donald Trump step foot in their country. ‘Vietnam has been through a lot in the past. It all pales in comparison to seeing that orange spectre of evil walk through our nation,’ said one resident. While some have called Vietnam’s reaction to being visited by Trump extreme, residents have fired back. ‘You don’t know, man. You weren’t there! Many of us are still getting horrible flashbacks of that terrible event,’ said Do Van Dang, one of the worst afflicted. The short trip was also eye-opening for President Trump who says it gave him empathy for US troops who served there during the Vietnam War. ‘I too lost a good friend in Vietnam,’ said Trump, mournfully stroking a picture of Kim Jong-un.

Reporter Johnathan asks about the drama back in DC. This witch hunt is so bad for our country. I was impressed that he saw no collusion... Reporter: What was the atmosphere like when you walked away? Good relationship, we have a lot in common. NK has potential; incredible location. A lot of great things are happening. I want them to do great too but we're losing 300-500 billion a year to China. You'll be seeing that a lot (with other countries) We've talked about it. The others came back healthy, Otto didn't - Kim wouldn't allow that to happen. He's tough, smart, strong, military buys a lot of equipment from the US.

An increasingly fluid summit schedule has left the President's joint signing ceremony with Kim Jong Un in question. Trump's post-summit news conference has been moved up from 4AM ET to 2AM ET. Watch President Trump's solo news conference here: https://youtu.be/temWdpruIsg…

LIVE at approximately 2AM EDT: President Trump will speak to the media about his diplomatic progress with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well…

The Singapore summit of June 2018 ended with high hopes and an agreement to continue to talk at the cabinet level about the denuclearization of the peninsula. Those talks have bogged down since.

President Trump is eager for another victory but experts worry he will give up too much ground. And after referring to the dictator as "my friend", there's no indication the two leaders will talk about human rights issues North Koreans…

Diplomatic progress between the two countries slowed throughout the fall, and North Korea continued many of its activities as usual, including advancing its nuclear weapons research and improving some missile bases, according to experts. North Korea’s first steps weren’t significant Over the course of 2018, North Korea did make a few big gestures at limiting its nuclear weapons program. But many of these took place in preparation for Kim’s first meeting with Trump. “Trump has held up the testing moratorium and North Korea’s partial dismantlement of a missile test site as significant steps,” says Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association. “So North Korea’s arsenal continues to grow as diplomacy progresses.” The U.S. doesn’t know a lot of details about the program There were also reports that North Korea was not only continuing its previous efforts, but also increasing production of fuel in 2018. The group said in an August report that it remained unable to verify activities in North Korea, and warned that “knowledge of the DPRK’s nuclear program is limited and, as further nuclear activities take place in the country, this knowledge is declining.” There is evidence that North Korea has expanded As North Korea withheld information, a number of reports emerged throughout last year that showed missile bases continuing to operate and even expanding. “Since the Singapore summit, North Korea has not taken any significant steps that either reduced the threat posed by its nuclear weapons program or rolled it back,” Davenport said. And in December, another report revealed that Kim’s regime had expanded an important long-range missile base. “Just because a site was revealed publicly doesn’t mean they’re new or represent an expansion of the North Korean program.” “While it’s not necessarily positive sign that some of these facilities have continued to operate, North Korea hasn’t yet agreed to stop any of these activities,” she continued. “But there’s no country that’s ever been in arms control negotiations where — even if they have the political will to go into the negotiations — they unilaterally stop their program while they are negotiating.” There are still hopes for more progress In more recent months, both the U.S. and North Korea have seemed to make slightly more progress.