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FILE - In this undated file photo distributed on Sept. 16, 2017, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. U.S President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 during his State of the Union address that he intends to meet Kim on Feb. 27-28, 2019 in Vietnam, saying that although much work remains to be done toward peace on the Korean Peninsula, his relationship with Kim is a good one. 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 Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

The Latest: Dem derides Trump claim he prevented NKorea war

Associated Press

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump to meet North Korean leader Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands prior to their meeting on Sentosa Island in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Kim Jong-un-Donald Trump second summit date set

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, left, talks with South Korean National Security Director Chung Eui-yong during a meeting at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Biegun and South Korean officials met Sunday to discuss an expected second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (South Korea Presidential Blue House via AP)

US envoy, South Korean official discuss 2nd Trump-Kim summit

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, center, is questioned by reporters upon his arrival at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Biegun will meet with South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Lee Do-hoon. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

US, South Korean diplomats meet ahead of Trump-Kim summit

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this Dec. 21, 2018, photo, North Korean defector Kwak Jeong-ae, 65, speaks during an interview in Uijeongbu, South Korea. Experts and defectors say most of North Korea’s underground Christians do not engage in the extremely dangerous work of proselytizing. Instead, they largely keep their beliefs to themselves or within their immediate families. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

N. Korean Christians keep faith underground amid crackdowns

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with American manufacturers in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In reversal, Trump now says he and intel chiefs in agreement

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 27, 2017 file-pool photo, South Korea and U.S. soldiers stand guard during a commemorative ceremony for the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas. Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, addressing Americans imprisoned in the communist country and deteriorating relations between the long-time foes, The Associated Press has learned. (Jung Yeon-Je/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Donald Trump not using U.S. troops as bargaining chip in North Korea talks, envoy says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters during a news conference a day after a bipartisan group of House and Senate bargainers met to craft a border security compromise aimed at avoiding another government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In reversal, Trump says he and intel chiefs on ‘same page’

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with American manufacturers in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump to say when, where he’ll hold 2nd North Korean summit

By MATTHEW LEE and PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a meeting with American manufacturers in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump breaks brief public silence during border negotiations

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump reaches to shake hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EDITORIAL: North Korea appears to be playing a familiar bait-and-switch game

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump reaches to shake hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Stephen Biegun preps North Korea economic package to reward Kim Jong-un denuclearization

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump announces a deal to temporarily reopen the government, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s shift on concrete wall, tariff myth

By HOPE YEN and COLLEEN LONG and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this Aug. 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's shadow is shown on an American flag as he speaks before signing an executive order at the CPCC Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File) **FILE**

AP-NORC poll: Most Americans oppose Trump’s foreign policy

By DEB RIECHMANN and HANNAH FINGERHUT - Associated Press

John Bolton Portrait Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

John Bolton explains Trump’s strategy on North Korea, China trade

By Tim Constantine

In this file photo released on Jan. 1, 2019, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a New Year's speech in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Kim Jong-un praises ‘personal letter’ from Donald Trump

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo Vice President Mike Pence and Navy Rear Adm. Jon Kreitz, deputy director of the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, right, watch as military members carry transfer cases from a C-17 at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of American service members who fell in the Korean War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The Pentagon says it has identified the remains of a soldier who died in a prisoner-of-war camp in North Korea in 1951. The soldier, Sgt. Frank Julius Suliman, is the third American servicemember to be identified from among 55 boxes of bones and other material that North Korea handed over to the last summer. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Soldier identified from remains held by North Korea

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, photo provided on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, meets Kim Yong-chol, who traveled to Washington to discuss denuclearization talks, in Pyongyang. 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 says Kim orders preparations for 2nd Trump meet

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Sweden: Envoys’ talks ‘good preparation’ for Trump and Kim

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