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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in talk at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Friday, April 27, 2018. North Korean leader Kim made history by crossing over the world's most heavily armed border to greet South Korean President Moon for talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP)

North and South Korea sign agreement to end Korean War

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, prepares to shake hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone Friday, April 27, 2018. Their discussions will be expected to focus on whether the North can be persuaded to give up its nuclear bombs. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP)

N. Korea glorifies summit with South; analysts less sure

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone Friday, April 27, 2018. Their discussions will be expected to focus on whether the North can be persuaded to give up its nuclear bombs. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP)

How Trump’s, Kim’s, Moon’s words have changed in just a year

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Choi Jung-hoon, a former North Korean army official who defected to South Korea in 2006, helps run Free North Korea Radio, which has been piping news into the North. (Guy Taylor/The Washington Times)

North Korean defectors watch Kim Jong-un’s South Korea visit with dread

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Koreans hold a banner showing the pictures of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to welcome the planned summit between South and North Koreas near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: SKorean conservatives criticize summit outcome

Associated Press

In this image taken from video provided by Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) Friday, April 27, 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in as Kim crossed the border into South Korea for their historic face-to-face talks, in Panmunjom. Their discussions will be expected to focus on whether the North can be persuaded to give up its nuclear bombs.(Korea Broadcasting System via AP)

Kim Jong-un’s South Korean border crossing sets stage for historic meeting

Associated Press

South Koreans hold a banner showing the pictures of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to welcome the planned summit between South and North Koreas near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Korea leaders avoid specific measures to address nuke crisis

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

In this image released by the White House, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a 2018 East weekend trip. President Donald Trump revealed more information about Pompeo's secret trip to North Korea, saying Pompeo wasn't supposed to meet with Kim, but that they ended up talking for more than an hour. Pompeo, who won Senate confirmation April 26, to become secretary of state, was the most senior U.S. official to meet a North Korean leader since 2000. (White House via AP)

Trump says NKorea has made nuclear concessions before talks

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

In this June 21, 2017, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Jeff Sessions: Trump investigation ‘needs to conclude’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Parents sue North Korea over death of detainee Otto Warmbier

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week after almost a year and a half in captivity, died Monday, June 19, 2017, his family said. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

Otto Warmbier’s parents sue North Korea for wrongful death

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, Earthquake and Volcano of the Korea Monitoring Division Director Ryoo Yong-gyu speaks to the media about North Korea's artificial earthquake with a map of the Korean peninsular in Seoul, South Korea. A study by Chinese geologists shows the mountain above North Korea's main nuclear test site has collapsed under the stress of the explosions, rendering it unsafe for further testing and necessitating monitoring for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China may shed new light on North Korean President Kim Jong Un's announcement that his country was ceasing its testing program.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Geologists say N. Korea’s nuclear test site likely collapsed

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron walk from the Oval Office to a tree planting ceremony on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: To a real nuclear deal

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File) (Associated press)

Kim Jong-un must end nuclear program by 2020, Japan says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 18, 2018 file photo, a U.S. soldier stands outside of the Peace House, the venue for the planned summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on April 27 during a press tour at the southern side of the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. The stakes will be high when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in sit down Friday, April 27, 2018 in the no man’s land that forms the world’s most heavily armed border. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Rival Koreas’ leaders face high stakes at historic summit

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron during their meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump calls Kim open, honorable as summit planning goes on

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron during their meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In big shift, Trump assesses Kim Jong Un as ‘very honorable’

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this April 13, 2017 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Choe Ryong Hae, vice-chairman of the central committee of the Workers' Party, arrive for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, in Pyongyang, North Korea. While North Korea declared this past weekend it would stop nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and shut down its nuclear test site, it did not indicate it will give up its nuclear arsenal or halt its production of missiles. Moon and later President Donald Trump are still likely to find it very difficult to persuade Kim to dismantle his entire arsenal, which includes purported thermonuclear weapons and developmental ICBMs.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Neutralizing a nuclear-armed North Korea

By Ed Feulner

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

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, in Washington, Monday, April 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US won’t ease sanctions without action by NKorea on nukes

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press