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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…

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…

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…

NBC News National Political Reporter Carol Lee shares the moment North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un arrived at his hotel in Vietnam... and how the American press corps had to relocate as a result. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC…

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.

President Donald Trump heads to Vietnam for a summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un aimed at regional denuclearization. Market Snapshot Global stocks pulled away from multi-month highs Tuesday amid a series of geo-political risks that trimmed risked appetite in the Asia region and could ripple into the U.S. trading session ahead of key housing data and Senate testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. President Donald Trump heads to Vietnam later today for a Wednesday summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in which the two men will attempt to solidify terms of their 2018 meeting in Singapore aimed and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Trump told reporters in Washington Monday before heading to the region, however, that his trade team was "very close" to cutting a deal with China following weeks of negotiations between Washington and Beijing, adding it "could happen fairly soon, or it might not happen at all". The President's non-committal stance on trade talk progress, despite his decision to extend a March 1 deadline on tariffs, pulled Asia stocks from their recent five-month highs and allowed U.S. equity futures to trade lower in early European hours. Markets were also unsettled by news of a air strike by Indian jets into Pakistan, the first such incursion in three years, following a suicide bomb in the Pulwama District of the disputed region of Kashmir that killed 40 Indian military policemen. The MSCI Asia ex-Japan index, the broadest measure of regional share prices, was marked 0.54% lower heading into the final hour of trading while the Nikkei 225 slipped 0.37% to end the session at 21,449.39 points. Tesla Inc. (TSLA) were a notable early market mover, falling more than 3.5% in pre-market trading Tuesday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a Federal court to hold founder and CEO Elon Musk in contempt for violating an earlier agreement on his use of social media. Caterpillar (CAT) shares were also weaker and indicated lower 3% lower after the investment bank UBS cut its rating on the industrial equipment maker and cautioned that revenue and earnings forecasts will be pressured in a slowing global economy. Global oil prices were posted modest gains in early European trading, following yesterday's 3% decline -- the biggest of the year -- that was largely triggered by President Trump's that cautioned on the impact of higher crude on a fragile world economy and urged OPEC leaders to "relax and take it easy".

The North Korean leader was accompanied by Kim Yong-chol, who has been a key negotiator in talks with the US, and by his sister Kim Yo-jong, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported. North Korea appeals for food aid as regime cuts rations due to drought and sanctions Read more There was a report of a green and yellow train similar to one used in the past by Kim crossing into the Chinese border city of Dandong via a bridge. Kim’s overseas travel plans are routinely kept secret and it could take more than two days for the train to travel thousands of miles through China to Vietnam. The Trump-Kim meeting is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi. Vietnam’s foreign ministry announced on Saturday that Kim would pay an official goodwill visit to the country “in the coming days” in response to an invitation by the president Nguy?n Phú Tr?ng, who is also the general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist party. In his meeting with Trump, Kim is expected to seek a US commitment for improved bilateral relations and partial sanctions relief while trying to minimise any concessions on his nuclear facilities and weapons. Kim wants to leverage his nuclear and missile programme for economic and security benefits, but doubts remains as to whether he is prepared to deal away an arsenal that he may see as his strongest guarantee of survival. North Korea maintaining more than a dozen missile launch sites, photos show Read more While North Korea has repeatedly demanded that the US take corresponding measures, including sanctions relief, Washington has called for more concrete steps from Pyongyang toward denuclearisation. Hanoi has been gearing up for the summit with heightened security. Trump expects to meet Kim Jong-un next year as nuclear talks stall Read more The Communist party’s Nhân Dân newspaper on Friday quoted the department of roads as saying the ban would first apply to trucks 10 tons or bigger, and vehicles with nine seats or more on the 170km (105-mile) stretch of highway from ??ng ??ng, the border town with China, to Hanoi from 7pm on Monday to 2pm on Tuesday, followed by a complete ban on Tuesday on all vehicles from 6am to 2pm.

The North Korean leader was accompanied by Kim Yong-chol, who has been a key negotiator in talks with the US, and by his sister Kim Yo-jong, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported. North Korea appeals for food aid as regime cuts rations due to drought and sanctions Read more There was a report of a green and yellow train similar to one used in the past by Kim crossing into the Chinese border city of Dandong via a bridge. Kim’s overseas travel plans are routinely kept secret and it could take more than two days for the train to travel thousands of miles through China to Vietnam. The Trump-Kim meeting is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi. Vietnam’s foreign ministry announced on Saturday that Kim would pay an official goodwill visit to the country “in the coming days” in response to an invitation by the president Nguy?n Phú Tr?ng, who is also the general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist party. In his meeting with Trump, Kim is expected to seek a US commitment for improved bilateral relations and partial sanctions relief while trying to minimise any concessions on his nuclear facilities and weapons. Kim wants to leverage his nuclear and missile programme for economic and security benefits, but doubts remains as to whether he is prepared to deal away an arsenal that he may see as his strongest guarantee of survival. North Korea maintaining more than a dozen missile launch sites, photos show Read more While North Korea has repeatedly demanded that the US take corresponding measures, including sanctions relief, Washington has called for more concrete steps from Pyongyang toward denuclearisation. Hanoi has been gearing up for the summit with heightened security. Trump expects to meet Kim Jong-un next year as nuclear talks stall Read more The Communist party’s Nhân Dân newspaper on Friday quoted the department of roads as saying the ban would first apply to trucks 10 tons or bigger, and vehicles with nine seats or more on the 170km (105-mile) stretch of highway from ??ng ??ng, the border town with China, to Hanoi from 7pm on Monday to 2pm on Tuesday, followed by a complete ban on Tuesday on all vehicles from 6am to 2pm.

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, must make a “meaningful” gesture if he wants to see sanctions lifted, Donald Trump said on Wednesday ahead of a second summit between the two men scheduled for next week. “The sanctions are on in full. I haven’t taken sanctions off,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I’d love to be able to, but in order to do that, we have to do something that’s meaningful on the other side.” Trump and Kim Jong-un to meet again at second nuclear summit Read more Trump and Kim are due to meet in Hanoi to discuss progress on the issue of North Korea’s nuclear program since they first met in Singapore last year. “Chairman Kim and I have a very good relationship. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something work out,” Trump said, without providing further details. Trump reiterated his view that North Korea had “great” potential for economic development and suggested the Vietnam summit would not be the last. At their landmark meeting in Singapore last year, the US and North Korean leaders produced a vaguely worded document in which Kim pledged to work toward “the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.” Is progress with North Korea possible under Trump’s style of diplomacy? | Michael H Fuchs Read more But progress has since stalled, with the two sides disagreeing over what that means. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders meanwhile said Trump spoke by phone with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the two men “reaffirmed their commitment to achieving the final, fully verified denuclearization of” North Korea.