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USA-North Korea relationship: 'It's complicated'

Perplexed by Trump's plan to visit Kim Jong Un, the man he threatened – just months ago – of "fire and fury like the world has never seen"? Here's some useful historical context.

South Korea

News of Trump-Kim meeting greeted with hope and caution

"I don't know what's in Trump's head, and I have doubts as to whether he's serious," says one Tokyo resident.

North Korea

N Korean leader, Kim Jong Un and Trump to meet 'as soon as possible'

South Korea's national security chief, Chung Eui-yong also told reporters at the White House that Kim has has pledged to refrain from further nuclear or missile tests.

North Korea

The talking thaw: North and South Korea

A delegation of senior South Korean officials travelled to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He expressed his "firm will to vigorously advance" inter-Korean ties and pursue reunification

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North Korea

South Korea and North Korea to talk

Talks between South Korea and North Korea are expected to focus on the North's missile stocks and relations with the US.

North Korea

North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western vis

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his late father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources tell Reuters.

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Giant Putin, Trump and Berlusconi satirical floats parade in Italy

A 'Fake News' float also featured a giant figure of the Pied Piper leading humans and rats down a route of lies.

Korea

Kim Jong Un's sister meets South Korean President

Kim Yo Jong is the first member of North Korea's ruling family to visit the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.

North Korea

North Korea shows off its military might ahead of Olympic Games

Peace and diplomacy have taken a backseat as Pyongyang paraded its military

North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's influential sister to visit South

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's influential sister to visit South

North Korea

South Korea offers border talks with North Korea

Just a day after North Korea signaled it might send a delegation to the Winter Olympics, the South responded by offering high level talks on the border

North Korea

Kim Jong-un warns United States: 'I have a nuclear button on my desk'

North Korean leader declares all of the US mainland is now within range of his country's nuclear weapons.

North Korea

North Korea blames US for ‘nuclear war mania’

Pyongyang slams a US military drill in the region as a provocation that could push the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Korea

North Korea fires new ballistic missile, South Korea's military says

The Pentagon said it had detected a "probable" missile launch and that it was in the process of assessing it.

South Korea

"North Korea is a country ruled by a cult" - Trump

The US president has issued a stark warning to leader Kim Jong-un

North Korea

Rare public outing for Kim's wife on factory tour

Focus on make-up rather than missiles as Kim Jong-un tours cosmetics factory

Malaysia

Kim Jong Nam murder suspects wheeled around crime scene

The two women say they thought they were carrying out a prank for a reality show when they approached the North Korean leader's half-brother at Kuala Lumpur's international airport last February.

North Korea

Hidden North Korea: NBC's Keir Simmons visits Pohynsa Temple

While North Korea delivers heated anti-US rhetoric on an almost daily basis, hearing from the country's people is rare. NBC's Keir Simmons got the chance to do so, on a state-sponsored visit to a temple nestled in the mountains to the north of the capital, Pyongyang.

USA

North Korea EMP attack "could kill 90% of Americans"

Officials in the US hear chilling claims that the rogue nation could be developing a 'doomsday weapon'

North Korea

Meet Kim Jong-un's sister Kim Yo-jong, the rising star of North Korea's regime

Having kept a low profile, Yo-jong would be totally unknown to most North Koreans