Whether Donald Trump’s approach actually works with North Korea will depend on the diplomacy that follows the showpiece Singapore summit, writes Christopher Hill.

The Singapore summit is the first ever between a sitting American president and North Korea's leader.

US President Donald Trump has said his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back on for June 12.

While all sides in the Korean peninsula have a vested interest in keeping the diplomatic process going, none really want to give up much while they do so, writes Peter Apps.

Just as President Michael D Higgins told a United Nations meeting in New York that Ireland’s peace process could inspire countries to talk rather than go to war, the leaders of North and South Korea announced that they would work together to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump exchanged insults and threats of nuclear annihilation. Soft-spoken South Korean President Moon Jae-in struggled to be heard.

Latest: The two Koreas have agreed to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons in historic talks between the two leaders.

South Koreans watched as history unfolded and Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader they normally only see in heavily edited footage, walked across the border and had his every word broadcast live and unfiltered on airwaves across the country.

Tomorrow's summit between South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is only the third time the leaders of the divided Koreas have met in the 65 years since the end of the Korean War.

President Donald Trump has claimed North Korea has already made concessions to the US in advance of a potential summit with Kim Jong Un in the coming months.

The desire for unity is common for North and South Koreans although the visions to achieve it differ ahead of this week's summit.

President Donald Trump has said that although he is looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it is "not going to be fruitful".

President Donald Trump has confirmed that CIA director Mike Pompeo has met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Mike Pompeo, the head of the CIA, has reportedly visited North Korea and meet with leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has briefed top ruling party officials on his vision for the future direction of dialogue with the US and his upcoming summit with South Korea's president, the North's official media reported.

North Korea's government has communicated directly with the United States to say that leader Kim Jong Un is ready to discuss his nuclear programme with President Donald Trump.

North and South Korea have begun preparatory talks to set up a summit later this month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean president Moon Jae-in.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un clapped his hands as he, along with his wife and hundreds of other citizens, watched a rare performance by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has watched a rare performance by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang, according to reports from Seoul.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean president Moon Jae-in are to meet on April 27.

US President Donald Trump said there is "a good chance" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will "do what is right for his people and for humanity" and make moves towards peace.

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un visited Beijing and met with President Xi Jinping in his first known trip to a foreign country since he took power in 2011, the Chinese government has confirmed.

North Korea's foreign minister has briefly met Sweden's prime minister during a surprise trip to Stockholm that has fuelled speculation about a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

A woman accused of murdering the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader was recruited by a suspect at a Hanoi bar two months earlier, her lawyer has said.

US president Donald Trump said he believes North Korea will abide by its pledge to suspend missile tests while he prepares for a summit by May with the North's leader Kim Jong Un.

Update 12.51pm: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has drawn a distinction between "talks" with North Korea and "negotiations", arguing President Donald Trump's willingness to chat with Kim Jong Un should not be construed as anything more than that.

President Donald Trump accepting a reported offer to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a stunning turn of events after a year of heated verbal warfare that included crude insults and mutual threats of nuclear attacks.

North Korea has said it is will only have talks with the US if Washington drops preconditions and demands for showing a willingness to scrap its nuclear programmes.

Kim Jong Un has expressed satisfaction with the North Korean delegation's visit to the South, in his first remarks since the high-level guests led by his sister returned to the North.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has shown himself to be a mature leader who is interested in calming down the tensions over the country’s nuclear and long-range missile programmes.

Donald Trump has told South Korea’s president that he is open to talks with North Korea "at the appropriate time, under the right circumstances".

China has tightened restrictions on trade with North Korea under UN nuclear sanctions, imposing a cap on oil supplies to the North and banning imports of its steel and other goods.

America's constitution allows for the impeachment and removal of presidents and vice-presidents only when they have been found guilty of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”.

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to the latest launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says is capable of reaching anywhere on the US mainland.

North Korea has said a US accusation that it was behind a major ransomware attack was a "grave political provocation" and vowed to retaliate.

Donald Trump is ill-informed and living in a "cowboy world" when it comes to the nuclear threat from North Korea, a prominent activist has said.

President Trump's national security adviser says the possibility of war with North Korea is increasing every day.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has thanked workers at a factory that built the tyres for a huge vehicle used to transport a new intercontinental ballistic missile that was test-launched this week.

President Donald Trump has announced the US is putting North Korea's "murderous regime" on America's terrorism blacklist.

China has said it is sending a high-level special envoy to North Korea following US president Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing.

Their murder trial moved from the courtroom to the Malaysian airport for a three-hour inspection tour under police guard.

The estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader had about 1.4 times the lethal dosage of VX nerve agent on his face after he was attacked at a Malaysian airport, a government chemist has told a court.

Kim Jong Un has called US President Donald Trump "deranged" and says he will "pay dearly" for his threats, according to North Korea's state news agency.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has been briefed on his military's plans to launch missiles in waters near Guam.