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US-North Korea relations
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- North Korea warned President Donald Trump not to listen to U.S. critics who were disrupting efforts to improve ties.
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- Summit:(1) Kim Jong-un made his way across China by train to a second summit with Mr. Trump in Vietnam.(2) The two leaders will meet in Hanoi eight months after their historic summit in Singapore, where they pledged to work toward the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
- U.S. Democratic Senators and U.S. security officials have warned Mr. Trump against cutting a deal that would do little to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
- Mr. Trump also said he was in no rush and had no pressing schedule for North Korea’s denuclearisation, hinting at a more gradual, reciprocal approach, long favoured by Pyongyang.
- The North also wants security guarantees and a formal end of the 1950-1953 Korean War, which ended in a truce, not a treaty.
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The Hindu