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North Korea rocket site appears to have resumed 'normal operational status', say US experts
•The website and the Center for Strategic and International Studies tracked activity at the site — which began before last week's aborted summit in Hanoi between US president Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un — using commercial satellite imagery.
Satellite images show North Korea rapidly 'rebuilding' main rocket launch site, says US think tank
•The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says activity is "evident" at the vertical engine test stand and the launch pad's rail-mounted rocket transfer structure at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station
Donald Trump says ending South Korea's 'war games' was not a concession to Kim Jong-un, denies military talks with latter
•Donald Trump said that the military drills, or war games as he call them, were never even discussed in his meeting with Kim Jong-un
Trump-Kim summit: North Korea disputes US account of talks breakdown, insists it demanded partial sanction relief
•Earlier, on Thursday in Hanoi, Trump had told reporters the North had demanded a full removal of sanctions in exchange for shutting the Yongbyon nuclear facility
Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un to continue 'productive talks to discuss denuclearisation', says KCNA amid Vietnam summit collapse
•The highly anticipated meeting in Vietnam was supposed to build on the leaders' historic first summit in Singapore last year, but the latest talks ended in deadlock with Washington and Pyongyang giving starkly different accounts of the reasons behind the impasse.
Trump-Kim Vietnam summit: UN praises 'courageous diplomacy' at US-North Korea meet, hopes talks will continue
•President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended their second summit in Hanoi with no deal after Pyongyang demanded a full lifting of sanctions. Guterres "appreciates the effort that was made in those discussions, regardless of the results, of the outcome that we saw," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
US ready to negotiate with North Korea 'immediately', seeks denuclearisation by 2021, says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
•The United States said it was ready to resume talks with North Korea after Pyongyang pledged on Wednesday to dismantle its key missile facilities and suggested it would close its main Yongbyon nuclear complex if Washington took unspecified actions.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un may meet again as North Korean leader sends 'very warm' letter to US president
•The White House has said talks are underway with North Korea over the possibility of a second summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un after the North Korean leader sent a "very warm" letter.
No plans to suspend more major military exercises on Korean peninsula, says US amid diplomacy breakdown with North Korea
•Defense Secretary James Mattis said at a Pentagon news conference that no decisions had been made about major exercises for next year, but noted that the suspension of drills last summer as a good-faith gesture to North Korea was not open-ended
US to urge nations to keep up sanctions pressure against North Korea over little progress on decuclearisation
•Pompeo and top diplomats from other countries involved in trying to curtail Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions will scrutinise whether North Korea has taken concrete steps towards abandoning its nuclear weapons.