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FILE - In this March 25, 2015, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and a South Korean Army soldier participate in a demonstration of the combined arms live-fire exercise during the annual joint military exercise Foal Eagle between South Korea and the United States at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, north of Seoul, South Korea. Even as he announced failed nuclear negotiations with North Korea on Thursday, President Donald Trump again called regular military drills with South Korea “very, very expensive” and said South Korea must pay more for those joint exercises. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Trump’s cost complaint casts doubt on SKorea military drills

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: NKorea disputes Trump account of summit collapse

Associated Press

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, top center, watches the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on a TV screen before the start of a weekly Cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. (Bee Jae-man/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korea says failure to reach nuclear deal ‘unfortunate’

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

FILE - This June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. Trump and Kim will likely be all smiles as they shake hands later this week in Hanoi for a meeting meant to put flesh on what many critics call their frustratingly vague first summit in Singapore. But behind the grins is a swirl of competing goals and fears. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

AP Explains: What everyone wants at the Trump-Kim summit

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center right, is greeted on his arrival at the Dong Dang railway station in Dong Dang, Vietnam's border town Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, ahead of his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Minoru Iwasaki/Kyodo News via AP)

Donald Trump sees Vietnam as North Korea economic model

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (right) will be meeting with President Trump this week for denuclearization talks, but it’s Kim Yong-chol (background) who has prevented concrete action since their first summit in Singapore in June. (Associated Press)

Kim Yong-chol, Kim Jong-Un aide, aims to outwit Trump negotiators

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE- In this combination of file photos, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 16, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a meeting with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom, South Korea, on April 27, 2018. For some observers, the nightmare result of the second summit between Trump and Kim is an ill-considered deal that allows North Korea to get everything it wants while giving up very little, even as the mercurial leaders trumpet a blockbuster nuclear success. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Nightmare result of US-NKorea talks: Bad deal, little change

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2017, file photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, F-35B stealth fighter jets and South Korean F-15K fighter jets fly over the Korean Peninsula during joint drills. Ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, some observers say there is an uncertainty over the future of the decades-long military alliance between Washington and Seoul. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Worry about US-SKorea alliance grows before Trump-Kim summit

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2018, file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ride in a car during a parade through a street in Pyongyang, North Korea. The upcoming Trump-Kim meeting will be a crucial moment for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is desperate for more room to continue his engagement with North Korea, which has been limited by tough U.S.-led sanctions against Pyongyang. (Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP, File)

2nd Trump-Kim summit crucial moment for Moon’s presidency

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, photo, a guide stands near a basketball shoe display in a product exhibition room at the Ryuwon Shoe Factory that specializes in sports footwear, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean pop culture, long dismissed by critics as a kitschy throwback to the dark days of Stalinism, is getting a major upgrade under leader Kim Jong Un. The changes are being seen in everything from television dramas and animation programs to the variety and packaging of consumer goods, which have improved significantly under Kim. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

K-pop and fancy sneakers: Kim Jong Un’s cultural revolution

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, right, speaks during the Korean Sport &amp; Olympic Committee general assembly at the National Training Center in Jincheon, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. South Korea has chosen its capital, Seoul, for its bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics, which it hopes to jointly host with rival North Korea as a peace gesture. (Kim In-chul/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea picks Seoul for 2032 Olympic bid

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 2008 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the cooling tower of the Yongbyon nuclear complex is demolished in Yongbyon, North Korea, in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. When U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un first met in Singapore in 2018, there was pomp, there was circumstance, but there wasn’t much substance. As they get ready to sit down again in Vietnam on Feb. 27-28, 2019, there’s growing pressure that they forge a deal that puts them closer to ending the North Korean nuclear weapons threat. (Gao Haorong,/Xinhua via AP, File)

Trump-Kim summit to focus on NKorea nuke complex, US rewards

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Members of the Honor Guard carry U.S. and South Korea flags after participating in the 2018 Security Consultative at the Pentagon, co-hosted by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and South Korea Minister of Defense Jeong Kyeong-doo, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

U.S., South Korea strike cost-sharing deal for American troops

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, file photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a speech at the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces to mark the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army, in Pyongyang, 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: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) ** FILE **

Christopher Hill, Joseph DeTrani urge Kim Jong-un to ‘show some denuclearization,’ clarify demands

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, right, and Timothy Betts, acting Deputy Assistant Secretary and Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements in the U.S. Department of State, shake hands for the media before their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)

South Korea, US sign cost-sharing deal for American troops

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

This May 2017 file photo shows Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's helicopter carrier Izumo off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Japan's Defense Ministry said Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, that it will not send Izumo to South Korea’s southern port of Busan, where it was scheduled to join a multilateral naval exercise beginning in April off of the country's coasts. The announcement comes as the two Asian neighbors were locked in disputes over military issues and wartime history. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan cancels port call by warship in South Korea amid row

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

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

In this Jan. 16, 2019, photo, Park I Seul speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea. As she pursued her dream of becoming a fashion model, Park realized she was neither tall or skinny, like typical runway models, nor “big enough” to be a plus-size model. She also realized one day that the only way to meet the lofty ideals of South Korea’s beauty standards was for her to continuously deny herself. Her newfound view of her body is part of a growing movement by South Korean women who have begun to resist what they see as extreme pressure to look a certain way. (AP Photo/Jung Yoon Kim)

South Korean women begin to resist intense beauty pressure

By JUNG YOON KIM - 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

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