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This combination of two file photos shows 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. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

Mike Pompeo plans talks to prepare new Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court KIM Myeongsu, center, sits with other justices upon their arrival at the Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled that a Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Court orders Japan company to pay 4 Koreans for forced labor

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, a U.S. and a South Korean army soldiers stand before leaving from the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. The rival Koreas and the U.S.-led U.N. Command completed withdrawing firearms and troops from a jointly controlled area at the Koreas' border village on Thursday as part of their sweeping agreements to reduce decades-long military animosities on the Korean Peninsula. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP).

2 Koreas to destroy 22 front-line guard posts by November

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Oct. 2, 2018, photo, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, center, announces a crackdown against &quot;fake news&quot; during a cabinet meeting at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea declared a crackdown against supposed “fake news” flourishing online, vowing to use its criminal laws to curb what officials here have proclaimed a threat to democracy. (Choe Dong-joon/Newsis via AP)

South Korean war on ‘fake news’ raises concern of censorship

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2018, file photo, South Korean soldiers search for landmines inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas in Cheorwon, South Korea. South Korea on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, said it has discovered what could be Korean War remains at a frontline area where it's jointly clearing mines with North Korea. (Song Kyung-Seok/Pool Photo via AP. File)

Koreas, UN finish removing firearms from border village

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. The government of Moon formally approved the rapprochement deals he made with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last month. (Bee Jae-man/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea’s Moon ratifies deals with Kim despite backlash

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this April 18, 2018 file photo, two South Korean soldiers, center and left, and U.S. soldier, right, stand in the southern side during a press tour at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. North and South Korea and the U.S.-led United Nations Command on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, are meeting to discuss efforts to disarm a military zone the rivals control within their shared border under a peace agreement between the Koreas. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

North and South Korea, U.N. agree to scale down weapons at border: Report

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 17, 2018, photo, South Korea's Jeju Immigration Service director general Kim Do-kyoon comments on the status of the Yemeni asylum seekers at the Jeju Immigration Service in Jeju, South Korea. South Korean progressives are criticizing Seoul's government for rejecting refugee status to nearly 400 asylum seekers from war-ravaged Yemen whose arrival in the southern resort island of Jeju earlier this year triggered an anti-immigration uproar. (Baek Na-young/Yonhap via AP)

Progressives say Seoul caved in denying asylum to Yemenis

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korea denies refugee status to hundreds of Yemenis

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, right, listens to South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivering a speech at the end of a Mass for peace inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. South Korea's president is in Italy for a series of meetings that will culminate with an audience with Pope Francis at which he's expected to extend an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican: South Korea’s Moon shares faith in peninsula peace

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Friends are relatives carry coffins containing bodies of South Korean climbers killed over the weekend in a fierce storm on Nepal’s Gurja Himal mountain after theywere brought to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. The bodies were driven to the airport and were set to be flown to Seoul, South Korea's capital, later Tuesday. The bodies of five South Korean climbers are heading home amid calls to improve weather warning systems on Nepal's mountains. (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)

Weeping relatives receive bodies of South Korean climbers

Associated Press

South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Ri Son Gwon before their meeting at the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The rival Koreas are holding high-level talks Monday to discuss further engagement amid a global diplomatic push to resolve the nuclear standoff with North Korea. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP)

The Latest: NKorea-born reporter banned from covering talks

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron pose before a meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Moon Jae-in is for a three-day state visit in France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

South Korean President meets Macron on state visit to France

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South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon gets into a car to leave for the border village of Panmunjom to attend a meeting between South and North Korea, at the Office of the South Korea-North Korea Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Koreas agree to break ground on inter-Korean railroad

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Officials unload the bodies after a helicopter carrying bodies of those killed in Gurja Himal mountain arrives at the Teaching hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. Rescuers retrieved the bodies of five South Korean climbers and their four Nepalese guides from Gurja Himal mountain, where they were killed when their base camp was swept by a strong storm. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Climbers who died in Nepal storm included famed South Korean

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 file photo,United States' Mikaela Shiffrin smiles after competing in the women's combined slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Jeongseon, South Korea. Turns out, even two-time World Cup overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin gets nervous in the start gate. It first struck her two years ago and hit her again before the Olympic slalom race last winter when she finished fourth. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Dodging nerves, skier Shiffrin vows to enjoy ride

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. South Korea has walked back on a proposal to lift some of its unilateral sanctions against North Korea following President Donald Trump’s blunt response. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

S. Korea walks back on possibly lifting sanctions on North

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2018, file photo, the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea is seen from the Taesungdong freedom village inside the demilitarized zone during a press tour in Paju, South Korea. South Korea's Unification Ministry on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, said the water is being supplied to a liaison office between the countries that opened in Kaesong in September 2018 and has been provided to the town's residents as well. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

The Latest: Trump: Lifting sanctions needs ‘our approval’

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In this Sept. 19, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP, File)

Seoul says Kim Jong-un wants Pope Francis to visit North Korea

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2018, file photo, the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea is seen from the Taesungdong freedom village inside the demilitarized zone during a press tour in Paju, South Korea. South Korea's Unification Ministry on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, said the water is being supplied to a liaison office between the countries that opened in Kaesong in September 2018 and has been provided to the town's residents as well. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

South Korea considers lifting some sanctions on North Korea

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press