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FILE- In this combination of file photos, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 16, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a meeting with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom, South Korea, on April 27, 2018. For some observers, the nightmare result of the second summit between Trump and Kim is an ill-considered deal that allows North Korea to get everything it wants while giving up very little, even as the mercurial leaders trumpet a blockbuster nuclear success. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Nightmare result of US-NKorea talks: Bad deal, little change

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1966, file photo, a U.S. Air Force B-52 delivers a bomb load of more than 38,000 pounds against Viet Cong strongholds in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi once trembled as waves of American bombers unleashed their payloads, but when Kim Jong Un arrives here for his summit with President Donald Trump he won’t find rancor toward a former enemy. Instead, the North Korean leader will get a glimpse at the potential rewards of reconciliation. (AP Photo, File)

From bombers to Big Macs: Vietnam a lesson in reconciliation

By DENIS D. GRAY and HAU DINH - Associated Press

UN gives green light for North Koreans to travel to Vietnam

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Le Phuc Hai, 66, left, and To Gia Huy, 9, have Trump and Kim haircuts in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have become the latest style icons in Hanoi, a week before their second summit is to be held in the capital city of Vietnam. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump? Hanoi barber offers leaders’ hairdos for free

By Hau Dinh - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich, left, review an honor guard in Hanoi, Vietnam. By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Mattis is showing how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China’s military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region who share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning Tuesday also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced since the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War, whose legacy includes a continued search for the remains of U.S. war dead on Vietnamese soil. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh, File)

Mattis trip to Vietnam aimed at countering China’s influence

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich, left, review an honor guard in Hanoi, Vietnam. By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Mattis is showing how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China’s military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region who share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning Tuesday also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced since the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War, whose legacy includes a continued search for the remains of U.S. war dead on Vietnamese soil. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh, File)

Mattis pushes closer ties to Vietnam amid tension with China

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Hanoi residents line a street in Hanoi, Vietnam Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 to pay last respect to late President Tran Dai Quang who died last week of viral illness. Some were using smart phones to catch images of his flag-draped coffin on truck-drawn artillery carriage. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)

People line streets of Vietnam’s capital to mourn president

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Vietnam detains senior official for global rights group

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Pham Van Khanh, a 62-year-old retiree, lays flowers at the monument of Senator John McCain in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. The monument was erected by Vietnamese authority to mark the day when McCain's plane, a Major in the U.S. Navy was shot down in 1967. Vietnam has been paying respect to McCain who died on Saturday. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)

Former Vietnamese jailer says he respected Sen. McCain

By TRAN VAN MINH - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump talk as they arrive for the family photo session during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. President Trump stood before a summit of Asian leaders keen on regional trade pacts and delivered a roaring &quot;America first&quot; message Friday, denouncing China for unfair trade practices just a day after he had heaped praise on President Xi Jinping in Beijing. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Trump: Putin denies, is “insulted” by meddling accusation

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded the West a couple of weeks ago, in effect, "We have weapons that you can't defend against." (Associated Press/File)

The Latest: Vietnam wants peaceful end to sea disputes

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Kennedy's Unopened Door Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Vietnam War documentary left out some key facts

By Phillip McMath

President Obama acknowledged that some dissidents who had been invited to meet with him were not able to attend. A White House aide blamed the Vietnamese government for preventing attendance by two dissidents and human rights groups said police are preventing some activists from leaving their homes during Mr. Obama's visit. (Associated Press)

Obama presses human rights message on trip in Vietnam

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One upon his departure from Noi Bai international airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Obama is in Vietnam on a three-day visit. (AP Photo/Duong Minh Hoang)

Dissidents unable to meet with Obama in Vietnam as president calls for openness

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Even as President Obama was lifting a ban on arms sales to Vietnam, the communist government was arresting human rights activists. (Associated Press)

Vietnam arms embargo lamented as Obama leverage for human rights

The Washington Times

President Obama is given flowers by Linh Tran, the ceremonial flower girl, as he arrives Sunday at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Associated Press)

Obama lifts ban on selling U.S. arms to Hanoi in a bitter irony for Vietnam veterans

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Cultivating relationships: President Obama will make his final trip to the G-7 summit next week, including a visit to Vietnam, where the president hopes to foster a mutual relationship against Chinese expansion in the waters around the country. (Associated Press)

Obama woos Vietnam amid China’s economic rise, South China Sea aggression

By James Borton - Special to The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, right, shakes hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Gen. Phung Quang Thanh before their talks behind closed doors in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, June 1, 2015. Carter is on a three-day visit to Vietnam to deepen military cooperation between the two former foes. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

Vietnam: Don’t tie U.S. weapons sales to human rights issues

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 25, 2013, file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama poses with Vietnam's President Truong Tan Sang for a photo during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Bilateral friendship between the U.S. and Vietnam was formalized in 2013, when Truong Tan Sang visited the White House and with Obama launched a “Comprehensive Partnership” for cooperation in political and diplomatic relations, trade and economic ties, defense, the war legacy and many other issues. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Vietnam and the U.S. test their hard-won friendship

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press