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President Donald Trump gestures while speaking at the Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump rejects Marshall Plan nation-building, opts for ‘tough love’ foreign policy

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. Moon will send an envoy to North Korea next week for talks on a nuclear standoff and to set up a summit planned for next month, his office said Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP. File)

Kim Jong Un, Moon Jae-in to meet at Two Koreas summit

Associated Press

FILE- in this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in raise their hands after signing on a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. As North Korea prepares for a massive parade Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding, worry is rising in South Korea that a tentative detente is slipping away. Senior Chinese official Li Zhanshu will also attend the parade, which would underscore China’s role as an important player in efforts to solve the nuclear crisis. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

North Korean parade a tricky prelude to inter-Korean summit

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Tottenham’s Son avoids military duty with Asian Games gold

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. Moon will send an envoy to North Korea next week for talks on a nuclear standoff and to set up a summit planned for next month, his office said Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP. File)

S. Korean envoy to travel to North for pre-summit talks

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, June 12, 2018, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore. Mr. Trump has already met twice with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he is eager to re-create in Finland the heady experience that he had last month with Mr. Jong-un. That Singapore summit became a mass media event complete with powerful presidential images. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

North Korea blasts U.S. for canceling talks

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The combined Koreas march into Gelora Bung Karno Stadium under the &quot;unification&quot; flag during the opening ceremony for the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Combined Koreas crew wins historic medal at Asian Games

By JOHN PYE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 6, 2018, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from left, is greeted by North Korean Director of the United Front Department Kim Yong Chol, center, and North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, second from right, as he arrives at Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea. South Korea on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, called the U.S. decision to call off a trip to North Korea by Pompeo &quot;unfortunate&quot; and said continued diplomacy would be most crucial in resolving the nuclear standoff with the North. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

China blasts Trump comment; Seoul regrets Pompeo trip delay

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

South Korea, Hawaii to meet in the LLWS championship

By SARA PERLOWITZ - Associated Press

South Korea's Ji Hying Choi (17) celebrates with teammates as he returns to the dugout after hitting a solo home run off Japan's Shisei Fujimoto in the first inning of the International Championship baseball game at the Little League World Series tournament, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, in South Williamsport, Pa. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

South Korea beats Japan 2-1 for a spot in LLWS championship

By TOMMY BUTLER - Associated Press

In this Aug. 22, 2018, photo, Kim Kyung-jae, 86, speaks in front of letters sent from his North Korean sister during an interview at his office in Seoul, South Korea. Kim is one of a dwindling number of elderly South Koreans who, frustrated with North Korea’s reluctance to allow more frequent reunions and by the small chance that they’ll be selected before they die, found unofficial networks to communicate with their North Korean relatives. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Elderly Koreans shut out of family reunions use backchannels

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

More than 200 American faith leaders gathered at the Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas to pray for peace. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC)

World faith leaders pray for peaceful reunification of Korea

By Special Sections Department

U.S. Gen. Vincent Brooks commander of the United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command, speaks during a press conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. Brooks said he is cautiously optimistic that nuclear diplomacy will work out with North Korea. But he also says that Seoul and Washington must continue to apply pressure so that &quot;there's not a reason or even an ability&quot; for the North to back out. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

US commander says pressure key to nuclear diplomacy

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, center, hugs her North Korean son Ri Sang Chol, 71, left, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea on Monday for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most haven't seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean War. (Lee Ji-eun/Yonhap via AP)

Tears, farewell hugs end 1st round of Korean reunions

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump salutes as he arrives on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, as he returns from Springfield, Mo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump using U.S. troop levels as leverage, experts say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

South Koreans leave for North Korea to take part in family reunions with their North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. About 200 South Koreans and their family members will cross into North Korea for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most haven’t seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean War. (Lee Ji-eun/Yonhap via AP)

South Koreans enter North to reunite with kin split by war

By Kim Tong-hyung and Chang Yong Jun - Associated Press

In this Aug. 17, 2018, photo, Lee Soo-nam, 76, shows photos of his brother Ri Jong Song in North Korea during an interview at his home in Seoul, South Korea. Lee is among about 200 war-separated South Koreans and their family members who are crossing into North Korea for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives they haven’t seen for decades. The week-long event beginning Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, at North Korea’s Diamond Mountain resort come as the rival Koreas boost reconciliation efforts amid a diplomatic push to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

‘Dream or reality?’ Koreans to meet after decades apart

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Son feels ashamed after South Korea’s upset loss to Malaysia

By JOHN PYE - Associated Press

South Korea bans driving recalled BMW cars after dozens of fires

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

South Korean Minister of Land Infrastructure and Transport, Kim Hyun-mee, center, speaks at a press conference at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. South Korea will ban driving recalled BMWs that haven't received safety checks following dozens of fires the German automaker has blamed on a faulty exhaust gas component. (Kim Seung-doo/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea bans driving BMWs under recall due to fires

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press