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Illustration on North Korean denuclearization by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The denuclearization of North Korea

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

In this Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. Tillerson huddles Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, with nations that fought on America's side in the Korean War, looking to tighten the economic noose around North Korea over its nuclear weapons even as hopes rise for diplomacy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump ousts Rex Tillerson, taps CIA Director Mike Pompeo for State Dept.

By Dave Boyer and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In the May 11, 2017 file photo, CIA Director Mike Pompeo listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump ousted Rex Tillerson as secretary of state Tuesday, making a surprise Twitter announcement that he’s naming CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Pompeo won’t get hearing until April

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Then-National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

US official: Maximum pressure on North Korea until progress

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, right, meets with South Korea's national security director Chung Eui-yong, center, and South Korean ambassador to China Noh Young-min at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Monday, March 12, 2018. (Etienne Oliveau/Pool Photo via AP)

S. Korea praises China’s role in nudging N. Korea to talks

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Czech Republic's Jiri Raul collide with South Korea's Choi Kwang Hyouk during a preliminary Ice Hockey match of the 2018 Winter Paralympics held in Guangneung, South Korea, Sunday, March 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

North Korean defector hits Paralympic ice for South Korea

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

People watch a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, left, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 9, 2018. After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, South Korean and U.S. officials said Thursday. No sitting American president has ever met with a North Korea leader. The signs read: &quot; Kim Jong Un understands that the routine joint military exercises between the South Korean and the United States must continue.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

NK faces no more conditions for talks but yet to contact US

By MARK SHERMAN and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

This combination of two file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. Trump has accepted an offer of a summit from the North Korean leader and will meet with Kim by May, a top South Korean official said Thursday, March 8, 2018, in a remarkable turnaround in relations between two historic adversaries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un meeting brings skepticism

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump's nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Elizabeth Warren fears Donald Trump to be ‘taken advantage of’ by Kim Jong-un

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White in Washington, Saturday, March 10, 2018, before boarding Marine One for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is traveling to Pennsylvania for a campaign event for Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump says North Korea won’t test missiles before his meeting with Kim Jong Un

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives to speak to the media at a joint press conference with Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Monica Juma, at an hotel in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, March 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Illness sidelines U.S. secretary of state for a day in Africa

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

A jumbo screen in Tokyo shows President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who have agreed to face-to-face talks about the North’s nuclear program. (Associated Press/File)

Trump believes North Korea will keep word on missile tests

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Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Monday, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China state media says Trump-Kim meeting vindicates Beijing diplomacy

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this image made from video by North Korea's KRT, a military parade is held in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. North Korea held a massive military parade highlighted by intercontinental ballistic missiles in its capital on Thursday, just one day before South Korea hosts the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. (KRT via AP Video)

Trump wants de-nuke proof from North Korea before talks

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

This combination of two file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. Trump has accepted an offer of a summit from the North Korean leader and will meet with Kim by May, a top South Korean official said Thursday, March 8, 2018, in a remarkable turnaround in relations between two historic adversaries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

What could go wrong? Pitfalls pose risks in Trump, Kim talks

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

A jumbo screen in Tokyo shows President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who have agreed to face-to-face talks about the North’s nuclear program. (Associated Press/File)

A look at what’s ahead in a landmark Trump-Kim summit

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

A jumbo screen in Tokyo shows President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who have agreed to face-to-face talks about the North’s nuclear program. (Associated Press/File)

Pence: U.S. made ‘zero’ concessions to North Korea ahead of planned Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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

The Latest: Trump says North Korea deal would be ‘very good’

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A woman walks by a huge screen showing U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, in Tokyo, Friday, March 9, 2018. After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, Trump agreed to meet with Kim by the end of May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, South Korean and U.S. officials said Thursday. No sitting American president has ever met with a North Korea leader. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Summit plan too easy on North Korea? US rejects criticism

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press