The nuclear summit with President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be recorded in history as a “tragic-comic moment,” Korean expert Sung-Yoon Lee said Monday. “President Trump is being played,” Lee, a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” “Moved by […]

The milestone summit between North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump has major implications for China, which has geopolitical and security interests at stake on the Korean Peninsula. “Lurking in the background as a potential spoiler or helper in this drama is Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who sees both opportunity and peril,” Fred […]

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un may be willing to discuss his country’s nuclear arsenal with President Donald Trump on June 12, but that doesn’t mean the reclusive regime will curtail or halt existing programs, strategists told CNBC. Nuclear prowess is a crucial component of Pyongyang’s identity. The pariah state has even built monuments at nuclear […]

Tuesday’s summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should be a viewed as a positive development but is unlikely to be a “momentous event,” said Kirk Wagar, U.S. ambassador to Singapore under former President Barack Obama. “This is a very good thing,” Wagar told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on […]

Kim Jong Un‘s historic meeting with President Donald Trump will change the North Korean leader’s standing in the world, a specialist on U.S.-Korea relations said Monday. “This is essentially the normalization of Kim Jong Un and North Korea on the international stage,” Scott Snyder, director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on […]

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered on Monday a firm declaration of American intentions for the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “This is truly a mission of peace” Pompeo told members of the media assembled in Singapore, saying that talks were moving quickly with North Korean […]

Speaking in Singapore on Monday, President Donald Trump said he believed Tuesday’s meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “could work out very nicely.” “We’ve got a very interesting meeting in particular tomorrow, I think things could work out very nicely,” he said during a bilateral meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who […]

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are set to meet at the negotiating table in Singapore on Tuesday in a dramatic reversal from last year’s insults and brinkmanship. The road to the historic meeting — the first between a sitting U.S. President and a North Korean leader — has been fraught […]

The first-ever meeting between sitting U.S. and North Korean leaders is set to happen in Singapore with potentially major consequences for Asia and the international community. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, who arrived separately to the Southeast Asian city-state on Sunday, are due to meet face-to-face Tuesday morning at the Capella […]

North Korea has told the United States that it’s prepared to discuss denuclearization at the June 12 summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump. But the reclusive regime likely has an entirely different understanding of what denuclearization entails. than the White House. For the U.S., the term means North Korea relinquishing […]