The only language on ‘denuclearization’ the two sides agreed on in their joint statement was complete pablum, and it puts the future relationship with South Korea in doubt.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have met in Singapore for their momentous summit and greeted each other with a historic handshake. Mr Trump said his 40-minute long one-on-one meeting with Mr Kim was "very, very good" and that the two have an "excellent relationship." The two leaders emerged from the summit smiling a Trump told reporters the meeting went 'better than anybody could have expected' "we had a really fantastic meeting."

The hashtag #TwoDictators erupted on Twitter after Fox News host Abby Huntsman on Sunday mistakenly used the term to describe President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The "Fox and Friends" presenter apologized to viewers after referring to the leaders as "two dictators" ahead of their historic meeting in Singapore Tuesday. Speaking on "Fox and Friends Weekend," Huntsman mistakenly suggested to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci that the upcoming summit would be a historic moment for two autocratic powers.

The once-elusive Kim Jong-un may be emerging as something of an international statesman, but North Korean artists in Seoul who personally suffered under his leadership tell the BBC's Heather Chen and Minji Lee that peace talks won't change a man they call a tyrant. For several years, Song Byeok played an instrumental role in North Korea's propaganda machine. The painter from Hwanghae province was noticed by the ruling elite and chosen to be a state artist.

President Trump said it won't take long for him to tell if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is serious about denuclearization. He spoke about his upcoming summit with the leader on Saturday before his planned departure from Canada for Singapore. "I think within the first minute, I'll know," Mr. Trump told reporters as he prepared to leave the G-7 summit early. But how? A reporter asked.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly fears being assassinated on his way to Singapore to meet with President Donald Trump, a trip that will take him further outside of his country than he's been since taking power in 2011. Kim is "extremely worried about security at the summit and is fearful of assassination attempts," Bloomberg quoted two sources familiar with the talks as saying.

President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got “on his hands and knees and begged” for their summit to be held after Mr. Trump canceled it last month.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is planning to visit Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s state media reported Sunday, for what could be the North Korean leader’s first summit meeting with a foreign head of state in his capital, Pyongyang. The report didn’t specify when a visit by Mr. Assad might take place, but quoted the Syrian president as saying: “I am going to visit the DPRK and meet HE Kim Jong Un,” using the acronym for the North’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “HE” is short for “His Excellency.”

The most senior North Korean to visit the US in nearly 20 years is delivering a letter from Kim Jong-un.

Following US President Donald Trump’s public letter cancelling the US-DPRK summit, an order emanating directly from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reportedly sent to the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Korean Workers’ Party Organization and Guidance Department (OGD) commanding that “outdated diplomacy practices be replaced and for creative diplomacy to be practiced.”

Sanctions against North Korea must be slowly eased as part of the process of its de-nuclearisation and all sides must meet each other half-way during negotiations, Russia's foreign minister said. On a visit to Pyongyang on Thursday - where he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho - Lavrov called for the phased lifting of sanctions on North Korea, indicating Pyongyang would not give up its nuclear weapons until that happens.

Japan's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a Japanese navy surveillance aircraft has spotted a suspected Chinese-flagged ship apparently transferring fuel to a North Korean tanker on the open seas. A ministry statement said that the two vessels were suspected of engaging in offshore ship-to-ship transfers banned under U.N. Security Council resolutions.

The talks happened as efforts continue to get Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong-un back on track.

Donald Trump has said next month's highly-anticipated summit with North Korea could be back on. The announcement comes just days after the US president cancelled the meeting in Singapore with Kim Jong Un that was scheduled for 12 June. Mr Trump had blamed the Pyongyang regime's "tremendous anger and open hostility" as he pulled out of the talks, saying the world had "lost a great opportunity for lasting peace".

Chinese state media are critical of Trump - while social media users see the funny side of things.

North Korea’s vice foreign minister Kim Kye Gwan said the North is open to resolving issues with the United States whenever and however after U.S. President Donald Trump called off a June summit with its leader, Kim Jong Un.

North Korea has said it is still willing to talk "at any time in any form" after US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his meeting with Kim Jong-un. Vice-foreign minister Kim Kye-gwan said Mr Trump's decision was "extremely regrettable". President Trump blamed the North's "open hostility" for the cancellation. The summit would have been the first time a sitting US president had met a North Korean leader.

North Korea appears to have blown up tunnels at its only nuclear test site, in a move to reduce regional tensions. Foreign reporters at the Punggye-ri site in the north-east said they had witnessed a huge blast. Pyongyang later said the site had been dismantled. The move by the North was seen as part of a diplomatic rapprochement with South Korea and the US.

The meeting was scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, but Mr. Trump says it “will not take place.”

A North Korean official has lashed out at US Vice President Mike Pence and said Pyongyang is ready for a nuclear showdown if dialogue with the United States fails. Choe Son Hui, a vice-minister in the North Korean Foreign Ministry, said if the US continued on its current path, she would suggest to North Korea's leadership that they reconsider the planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.