Jan. 1: Following months of provocative weapons assessments that incorporated the detonation of a purported thermonuclear warhead and 3 long-range missile launches, Kim says in his New Year's deal with that he has a nuclear button on his table but also calls for stepped forward family members with South Korea. Trump responds that he has a larger and extra powerful nuclear button, "and my Button works!"
Jan. 9: : North and South Korean officials meet within the border village of Panmunjom, and agree on North Korea sending athletes and delegates to the Olympics. North Korea sends masses of other folks to the video games in February, together with Kim's sister, who conveys her brother's want for a summit with Moon.
March 7: After visiting Kim in Pyongyang, South Korean presidential nationwide safety director Chung Eui-yong says Kim is keen to speak about the destiny of his nuclear arsenal with the United States.
March 9: Trump accepts Kim's invitation to fulfill following a dialog with Moon's envoys.
March 27: Kim makes a wonder talk over with to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in an apparent transfer to beef up his leverage ahead of his negotiations with Trump.
April 18: Trump confirms that Mike Pompeo, then the CIA leader, had met secretly with Kim in North Korea and said "a good relationship was formed" heading into the adversaries' expected summit.
April 21: North Korea says it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile assessments and plans to near its nuclear check website as part of a transfer to shift its nationwide focus and enhance its financial system. Trump tweeted, "This is very good news for North Korea and the World" and "big progress!"
April 27: Kim holds a summit assembly with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The leaders announce aspirational targets of a nuclear-free peninsula and everlasting peace.
Kim Jong Un (L), and Moon Jae-in shake arms after signing on a joint commentary on the border village of Panmunjom.
May 7: Kim meets Xi again in China and calls for stronger "strategic cooperation" between the standard allies amid shifts within the region's political surroundings.
May 9: Pompeo, now U.S. secretary of state, makes any other talk over with to Pyongyang to organize for the deliberate Trump-Kim summit. North Korea releases 3 Americans who have been imprisoned, they usually go back with Pompeo to the United States.
May 10: Trump pronounces he'll meet with Kim in Singapore on June 12. He tweets: "We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!"
May 12: North Korea says it is going to dangle a ceremony to dismantle its nuclear check website between May 23 and 25 and international reporters can be invited to wait.
May 16: North Korea breaks off a high-level assembly with the South and threatens to cancel Kim's summit with Trump in protest over U.S.-South Korean military workouts. The North says it won't be unilaterally harassed into forsaking its nukes.
May 22: Trump and Moon meet on the White House and specific optimism for a successful summit between Trump and Kim. Moon says the "fate and the future of the Korean Peninsula hinge" at the assembly in Singapore.
May 24: North Korean senior diplomat Choe Son Hui releases a commentary referring to Vice President Mike Pence as a "political dummy" for his feedback at the North and announcing it used to be as much as the Americans whether they would "meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown." Hours after North Korea dismantles its nuclear testing ground in entrance of international reporters, Trump pronounces he is pulling out of his summit with Kim, mentioning the North's "tremendous anger and open hostility."
May 25: North Korea says it's nonetheless keen to sit for talks with the United States "at any time, (in) any format." Moon says Trump's transfer to cancel the summit used to be "very perplexing" and calls for Washington and Pyongyang to get the talks back on track.
Jan. 9: : North and South Korean officials meet within the border village of Panmunjom, and agree on North Korea sending athletes and delegates to the Olympics. North Korea sends masses of other folks to the video games in February, together with Kim's sister, who conveys her brother's want for a summit with Moon.
March 7: After visiting Kim in Pyongyang, South Korean presidential nationwide safety director Chung Eui-yong says Kim is keen to speak about the destiny of his nuclear arsenal with the United States.
March 9: Trump accepts Kim's invitation to fulfill following a dialog with Moon's envoys.
March 27: Kim makes a wonder talk over with to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in an apparent transfer to beef up his leverage ahead of his negotiations with Trump.
April 18: Trump confirms that Mike Pompeo, then the CIA leader, had met secretly with Kim in North Korea and said "a good relationship was formed" heading into the adversaries' expected summit.
April 21: North Korea says it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile assessments and plans to near its nuclear check website as part of a transfer to shift its nationwide focus and enhance its financial system. Trump tweeted, "This is very good news for North Korea and the World" and "big progress!"
April 27: Kim holds a summit assembly with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The leaders announce aspirational targets of a nuclear-free peninsula and everlasting peace.
Kim Jong Un (L), and Moon Jae-in shake arms after signing on a joint commentary on the border village of Panmunjom.
May 7: Kim meets Xi again in China and calls for stronger "strategic cooperation" between the standard allies amid shifts within the region's political surroundings.
May 9: Pompeo, now U.S. secretary of state, makes any other talk over with to Pyongyang to organize for the deliberate Trump-Kim summit. North Korea releases 3 Americans who have been imprisoned, they usually go back with Pompeo to the United States.
May 10: Trump pronounces he'll meet with Kim in Singapore on June 12. He tweets: "We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!"
May 12: North Korea says it is going to dangle a ceremony to dismantle its nuclear check website between May 23 and 25 and international reporters can be invited to wait.
May 16: North Korea breaks off a high-level assembly with the South and threatens to cancel Kim's summit with Trump in protest over U.S.-South Korean military workouts. The North says it won't be unilaterally harassed into forsaking its nukes.
May 22: Trump and Moon meet on the White House and specific optimism for a successful summit between Trump and Kim. Moon says the "fate and the future of the Korean Peninsula hinge" at the assembly in Singapore.
May 24: North Korean senior diplomat Choe Son Hui releases a commentary referring to Vice President Mike Pence as a "political dummy" for his feedback at the North and announcing it used to be as much as the Americans whether they would "meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown." Hours after North Korea dismantles its nuclear testing ground in entrance of international reporters, Trump pronounces he is pulling out of his summit with Kim, mentioning the North's "tremendous anger and open hostility."
May 25: North Korea says it's nonetheless keen to sit for talks with the United States "at any time, (in) any format." Moon says Trump's transfer to cancel the summit used to be "very perplexing" and calls for Washington and Pyongyang to get the talks back on track.
Timeline of diplomatic developments on Korean Peninsula
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