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In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends an emergency meeting to discuss disaster prevention efforts against Typhoon Lingling, in North Korea. 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: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

‘Dotard’: North Korea threatens to resume Donald Trump insults

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Wang arrived in South Korea on Wednesday for his first visit in four years amid efforts to patch up relations damaged by Seoul's decision to host a U.S. anti-missile system that Beijing perceives as a security threat. (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP)

Moon calls for Chinese role in denuclearizing North Korea

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone in June 30, 2019. (AP file Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

North Korea threatens to resume calling Trump ‘dotard’

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

ADD KIM'S WIFE RI SOL JU AT RIGHT - This undated photo provided on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, with his wife Ri Sol Ju, right, riding on white horse during his visit to Mount Paektu, North Korea. North Korea says leader Kim has taken a second ride on a white horse to a sacred mountain in less than two months. 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: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim again rides horse up sacred peak as N. Korea raps Trump

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this Nov. 26, 2019, photo, a man looks at a photo of the launch of a missile hanging on the wall of a factory workers' dormitory in Pyongyang, North Korea. Fears rise that North Korea's year-end deadline to the U.S. to offer some new initiative to the nuclear-standoff means that nearly two years of head-spinning diplomatic engagement might be in danger of falling apart. Sign in Korean reads; &quot;Highest level.&quot; (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

North Korea warns US against meeting on its human rights

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 6, 2019, photo, Song Hong Ryon, pauses for a moment during an interview in Uijeongbu, South Korea. Song Hong Ryon looks like any other young woman in South Korea. But three years after her arrival from China, the half-North Korean, half-Chinese 19-year-old has made only two South Korean-born friends and says she’s often been hurt by little things, like when people ask if she’s from China because of her accent.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects a military unit on Changrin Islet in North Korea. 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: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea may deploy ‘super-large’ rocket launcher soon

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

A woman watches a news program reporting North Korea's firing unidentified projectiles with a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. North Korea on Thursday fired an unidentified projectile, South Korea's military said, three days after the North said its troops conducted artillery drills near its disputed sea boundary with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea missile launch: State Department ‘aware,’ monitoring

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, in Hanoi. Fears rise that North Korea's year-end deadline to the U.S. to offer some new initiative to the nuclear-standoff means that nearly two years of head-spinning diplomatic engagement might be in danger of falling apart. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Time running out on North Korea’s deadline to US on nukes

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects a military unit on Changrin Islet in North Korea. 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: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Seoul says North Korea has fired 2 short-range projectiles

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 7, 2018, file photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. For China, concerns about instability in North Korea, its ostensible communist ally, have long overridden worries about its nuclear arsenal. Beijing chiefly fears a collapse of the North Korean economy that could lead to armed conflict within the government and a potential flood of refugees streaming across the rivers that separate the neighbors. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP, File)

EDITORIAL: Double trouble with China and North Korea

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this undated photo provided on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects a military unit on Changrin Islet in North Korea. 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: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim orders N. Korea artillery firing, drawing Seoul rebuke

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Kim You-geun, deputy director of South Korea's presidential national security office, speaks at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. South Korea says it has decided to continue a 2016 military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan it previously decided to terminate amid ongoing disputes over their wartime history and trade. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

In reversal, Seoul to keep Japan military intelligence pact

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Fred Warmbier, right, speaks as his wife Cindy listens about their son Otto Warmbier who died after being released by North Korea during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. The Warmbiers say they are committed to finding and shutting down illicit North Korean business assets around the world in efforts to hold its government accountable for widespread human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Fred and Cindy Warmbier, parents of late U.S. hostage, chasing North Korean assets

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, left, and Vietnamese Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich talk before a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. Esper is on a visit to Vietnam to strengthen the military relations with the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Korean peninsula troubles pose US security challenge

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in cross the military demarcation line to the South side at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone. North Korea on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, said Kim turned down an invitation by Moon to participate in a regional summit next week in the southern city of Busan and has blamed the South for a deep freeze in inter-Korean relations. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

N. Korea says Kim turned down Moon invitation to visit South

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, walks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon his arrival for a welcome and family photo session at the G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, western Japan. South Korea said Thursday, Aug. 22, it is canceling an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid a bitter trade dispute, a surprise announcement that is likely to set back U.S. efforts to bolster mutual security cooperation with two of its most important allies in the Asian region. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

South Korea-Japan tension undercuts U.S., emboldens China and North Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, right, and U.S. Ambassador to Hanoi Daniel Kritenbrink prepare before a meeting with Vietnamese Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich in Hanoi, Vietnam Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. Esper is on a visit to Vietnam to strengthen the military relations with the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Esper doesn’t regret delaying drills, despite N. Korea snub

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo, protesters stage a rally to oppose a visit by U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper in front of the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea. Squeezed between a growing North Korean threat and a shaky alliance with the United States, South Korea must decide this week whether its national pride and deep frustrations with Japan are worth killing a major symbol of their security cooperation with Washington. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Seoul faces major decision over military pact with Tokyo

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2019, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to shake hands at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, North Korea’s supreme decision-making institution has lashed out at planned U.S.-South Korean drills and warned that the United States will face “bigger threat and harsh suffering” if it ignores North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s end-of-year deadline to salvage the nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

US envoy says time running short for North Korea deal

Associated Press