North Korea’s desire for nuclear weapons cannot be conjured away, so it’s likely Kim will offer Trump assurances that are just a little more encouraging than those he offered to South Korea, writes Christopher R Hill

The demilitarised zone separating North and South Korea has been suggested as a possible meeting place.

Donald Trump has floated the idea of holding his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the Koreas.

The meek are promised that they shall inherit the earth. That distracting, deferred consolation, though of ever more questionable value, may transpire. 

Latest: The White House has dismissed North Korea's claim that Donald Trump has declared war, calling it 'absurd'.

“We Come On The Ship They Call The Mayflower

US President Donald Trump’s warning to North Korea and Pyongyang’s threat of possible armed retaliation drove investors out of stocks and other risky assets and into textbook safe havens like gold and US debt paper.

A pre-emptive, surgical strike against Kim Jong Un is risky, but his regime will soon have a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile, say Isabel Reynolds and Enda Curran.

While US action is needed over the death of Otto Warmbier in North Korea, the goal must be to ensure no other student meets his fate, writes Dan DePetris.

The older brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has died.

It was meant to be a piece of journalism amounting to an “epic takedown” — a profile of Gwyneth Paltrow in Vanity Fair that would include “bombshell” revelations about her personal life.