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People watch a TV screen showing images of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in meeting failure could scuttle Trump summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file photo distributed on Sept. 3, 2017 by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday, April 27, 2018, the world will have a single overriding interest: How will they address North Korea’s decades-long pursuit of nuclear-armed missiles? Success, even a small one, on the nuclear front could mean a prolonged detente and smooth the path for a planned summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in May or June. Optimists hope that the two summits might even result in a grand nuclear bargain. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

World watching 2 North Korea summits for signs of nuke deal

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2018 file photo, Kim Yo Jong, left, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. North Korea's abrupt diplomatic outreach in recent months comes after a flurry of weapons tests that marked 2017, including the underground detonation of an alleged thermonuclear warhead and three launches of developmental ICBMs designed to strike the U.S. mainland. Inter-Korean dialogue resumed after Kim in his New Year’s speech proposed talks with the South to reduce animosities and for the North to participate in February’s Winter Olympics in Pyongchang. North Korea sent hundreds of people to the games, including Kim's sister, who expressed her brother's desire to meet with Moon for a summit. South Korean officials later brokered a potential summit between Kim and Trump. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

Road to N. Korea’s denuclearization is littered with failure

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 5, 2018, file photo, provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, front right, shakes hands with South Korean National Security Director Chung Eui-yong after Chung gave Kim the letter from South Korean President Moon Jae-in, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The upcoming meeting between the leaders of the rival Koreas will be the ultimate test of Moon’s belief that his nation should lead international efforts to deal with North Korea. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Moon faces tough challenges ahead of summit with Kim

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Workers plant flowers in the shape of the Korean Peninsula on a lawn in Seoul to wish for a successful inter-Korean summit this month. (Associated Press/File)

Moon Jae-in’s North Korea diplomacy efforts bring hope

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center left, talks with South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Do Jong-whan, center right, as his wife Ri Sol Ju, left, claps during a visit to members of a South Korean artistic group after their performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, April 1, 2018. Kim clapped his hands as he, along with his wife and hundreds of other citizens, watched the rare performance Sunday by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang, highlighting the thawing ties between the rivals after years of heightened tensions over the North's nuclear program. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim Jong-un summit threatened by Trump’s bid to end Iran nuclear deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 29, 2018, file photo, a visitor walks by a TV screen showing file footages of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. The rival Koreas started on Thursday, April 5, 2018, preparatory talks to set up a summit later this month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in amid a global diplomatic push to resolve tensions over the North's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man. File)

Koreas holds preparatory talks to set up Kim-Moon summit

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean popular girl band Red Velvet poses while speaking before leaving for North Korea at the Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 31, 2018. A South Korean artistic group including some of the country's biggest pop singers has departed for North Korea for rare performances highlighting the recent warming of ties between the war-separated rivals. (AP Photo/Ahn Youg-joon)

K-Pop time: South Koreans fly to North for rare concerts

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean soldiers stand as vehicles carrying a South Korean delegation pass the Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, March 29, 2018. The delegation led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon will hold a high-level talks with North Korea at the northern side of the Panmunjom. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, North and South Korea leaders, to meet April 27 in historic summit

By Lee Jin-man and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

In this image taken from video footage run Wednesday, March 28, 2018, by China's CCTV via AP Video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands in Beijing, China. The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday that North Korea's reclusive leader Kim went to Beijing and met with Chinese President Xi in his first known trip to a foreign country since he took power in 2011. The official Xinhua News Agency said Kim made an unofficial visit to China from Sunday to Wednesday. (CCTV via AP Video)

Kim, Xi portray strong ties after NKorea leader’s China trip

By GILLIAN WONG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean soldiers wait for vehicles carrying a South Korean delegation at Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, March 29, 2018. The delegation led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon will hold a high-level talks with North Korea at the northern side of the Panmunjom. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Rival Korean leaders to meet April 27 in historic summit

By LEE JIN-MAN and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2018 file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during a ceremony celebrating the 99th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule, at Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul, South Korea. Jae-in's visit to the United Arab Emirates this week shows the Asian nation's deepening cooperation with the Gulf country, from buying its oil, building the Arabian Peninsula's first nuclear power plant and potentially backing it in war. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP, File)

South Korean president visits UAE amid deepening ties

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 7, 2018, file photo, people watch a TV screen showing images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, center, and U.S. President Donald Trump at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has always wanted to lead the diplomacy aimed at ending the North Korean nuclear crisis, even as he was overshadowed in his first year in office by a belligerent standoff between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Korean letters on the screen read: &quot;Thawing Korean Peninsula.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

How SKorea leader took the reins in NKorea nuclear diplomacy

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

South Korean national security director Chung Eui-yong, center, accompanied by intelligence chief Suh Hoon, left, speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 8, 2018. President Donald Trump has accepted an offer of a summit from the North Korean leader and will meet with Kim Jong Un by May, a top South Korean official said Thursday, in a remarkable turnaround in relations between two historic adversaries. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump to meet with Kim Jong-un in May

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 21, 2018, photo, South Korea's national security director Chung Eui-yong speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. President Moon Jae-in will send a delegation led by Chung to North Korea on Monday, March 5, 2018, for talks on how to ease nuclear tensions and help arrange the restart of dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington, officials said Sunday. (Hong Hyo-shick/Newsis via AP)

The Latest: North Korea leader meets South Korean envoys

Associated Press

President Donald Trump, left, listens to South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a joint news conference at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Donald Trump, Moon Jae-in agree that talks with North Korea must focus on denuclearization

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, speaks during a meeting with his top aides at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Moon has joined the growing number of supporters of the country's MeToo movement. President Moon said in a meeting with his advisers Monday that he expressed respect to the victims who spoke up against some of South Korea's most powerful men for their sexual misconduct and urged authorities to investigate the cases thoroughly, according to his office's website. (Bae Jae-man/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea president joins country’s growing MeToo movement

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

Alina Zagitova of the Olympic Athletes of Russia performs during the women's short program figure skating in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The Latest: Zagitova gives Russians 1st gold in Pyeongchang

Associated Press

South Koran President Moon Jae-in talks with Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, during a performance of North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theater in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. A rare invitation to Pyongyang for South Korea's president marked Day Two of the North Korean Kim dynasty's southern road tour, part of an accelerating diplomatic thaw that included some Korean liquor over lunch and the shared joy of watching a &quot;unified&quot; Korea team play hockey at the Olympics. At left is North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam. (Bee Jae-man/Yonhap via AP)

North Korea won Pyeongchang political gold, but what’s next?

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, Kim Yong Nam, the 90-year-old president of the Presidium of the North's Parliament, IOC president Thomas Bach and South Korean President Moon Jae-in watch during the second period of the preliminary round of the women's hockey game at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

South Korea’s Moon may be on brink of legacy-defining moment

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press