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US-North Korea summit: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Pyongyang to lay groundwork ahead of meet

America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang, landing at the centre of a whirlwind of diplomacy ahead of a planned US-North Korea summit

Rex Tillerson ousted from office: Senate Democrats want next secretary of state to be tougher on Russia

Top United States Senate Democrats on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump’s stance on Russia as too soft

Donald Trump sacks Rex Tillerson: Mike Pompeo as secretary of state could sound death knell for Iran nuclear deal

President Donald Trump's sacking of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could sound the death knell for the Iran nuclear deal and further strain US ties with key European allies

Trump sacking Rex Tillerson is not about policy, it's personal

President Donald Trump is telling reporters that he made the decision to oust embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson "by myself". No surprises there, knives have been out between the two almost from Day One. Rex Tillerson's sacking has little to do with policy and much more to do with personal animosity over months of acrimonious exchanges. Trump seems to take special kind of pleasure in letting sacked bureaucrats get to know abut the indignity on telly or Twitter. Ditto with James Comey, former FBI chief.

Stubborn, reserved Tillerson a bad fit in chaotic Trump admin

After all, the then 64-year-old engineer had been chief executive of ExxonMobil, the US oil giant, and so close to Russia's Vladimir Putin that he had received a medal of friendship. What Trump got, to his evident frustration, was a stubborn diplomat in a more orthodox conservative tradition, keen to reassure allies, work with the US military and hold Russia at arm's length.