• N. Korea says Trump’s letter offers anti-virus cooperation

    N. Korea says Trump’s letter offers anti-virus cooperation

    Mar 22, 2020 05:47 PM EDT

    ... Korean leader. Kim Yo Jong said Trump’s letter is “a good example showing the special and firm personal relations” between the North Korean and U.S. leaders. But she said it’s not a good idea to “make hasty conclusion or be optimistic about” the prospect for bilateral relations ...

  • Twitter and Facebook delete foreign state-backed accounts

    Twitter and Facebook delete foreign state-backed accounts

    Dec 20, 2019 11:50 PM EDT

    ... crackdowns on state-backed social media campaigns came as tech companies step up efforts to tackle misinformation on their services ahead of next year's U.S. presidential elections. The efforts followed revelations that Russians bankrolled thousands of fake political ads during the 2016 elections to sow dissent among Americans ...

  • North Korea conducts another test at long-range rocket site

    North Korea conducts another test at long-range rocket site

    Dec 14, 2019 02:59 PM EDT

    ... hard-won diplomacy with Washington. They say Kim is likely to pressure Trump with military activities that pose less of a direct threat to the U.S. and by bolstering a united front with Beijing and Moscow. Both are the North's allies and have called for the U.N ...

  • North Korea threatens to again call Trump a ‘dotard’

    North Korea threatens to again call Trump a ‘dotard’

    Dec 05, 2019 04:40 PM EDT

    ... on North Korea and derided Kim as “little rocket man,” while Kim questioned Trump’s sanity and said he would "tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.” The two leaders have avoided such words and developed better relations after North Korea entered nuclear negotiations with the U.S ...

  • Most Southeast Asian leaders skip meetings with Trump's proxy

    Most Southeast Asian leaders skip meetings with Trump's proxy

    Nov 04, 2019 02:24 PM EDT

    ... to send only Prayuth as host, the Vietnamese prime minister as host of next year's summit and the leader of Laos, who oversees ASEAN-U.S. relations, a Southeast Asian diplomat told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authority to discuss the issue ...

  • North Korea launched 2 short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea says

    North Korea launched 2 short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea says

    Jul 31, 2019 12:43 AM EDT

    ... tests were supervised by Kim Jong Un and were designed to deliver a "solemn warning" to South Korea over its purchase of high-tech U.S.-made fighter jets and planned military drills that Pyongyang sees as an invasion rehearsal. Wednesday's launches came hours after a senior U.S ...

  • DMZ diplomacy? Trump outreach to Kim for border rendezvous

    DMZ diplomacy? Trump outreach to Kim for border rendezvous

    Jun 29, 2019 04:43 PM EDT

    ... Yoon Do-han, who added that a meeting would help pave the way for the resumption of nuclear diplomacy. Trump's summit with Kim in Vietnam earlier this year collapsed without an agreement for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. He became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with the ...

  • What's an advanced Russian warship doing in Havana harbor?

    What's an advanced Russian warship doing in Havana harbor?

    Jun 24, 2019 09:57 PM EDT

    ... electronic surveillance outpost in Cuba and a naval base in Vietnam as he sought to warm ties with the United States. Amid tensions with the U.S., Russian military officials talked about the possibility of reinstating a presence on Cuba and in Vietnam. Russian warships and aircraft have periodically made ...

  • Where President Trump stands on the issues in 2020

    Where President Trump stands on the issues in 2020

    Jun 19, 2019 09:16 PM EDT

    ... a ballistic missile strike against facilities housing U.S. troops in Iraq. The Trump administration has also brokered deals in the region. In August, the U.S. announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates would normalize relations. This month, the administration announced a similar agreement between Israel and Bahrain ...

  • China's Xi Jinping to visit North Korea this week

    China's Xi Jinping to visit North Korea this week

    Jun 17, 2019 11:31 AM EDT

    ... on the Korean Peninsula. The visit comes as negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea appear to have reached an impasse. A summit in Vietnam in February between Kim and President Donald Trump failed after the U.S. rejected North Korea's request for extensive relief from U.N ...