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China’s state-run Global Times unloaded on President Donald Trump in a Thursday editorial, preemptively accusing him of botching the yet-to-be-held denuclearization summit with Kim Jong-un by attempting to bully the North Korean leader with belligerent threats.

North Korea’s state media – the only means North Korean people have of learning about the outside world – mentioned the scheduled summit between President Donald Trump and dictator Kim Jong-un in a report Friday, one of the few confirmations North Koreans know the summit is happening.

Authorities in Singapore detained an impersonator of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Friday, questioning him about his political views to prevent any protest, according to reports.

The conservative South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported Friday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un will have to borrow a foreign plane to reach the planned summit between himself and President Donald Trump scheduled for Tuesday.

The White House announced that President Donald Trump would leave the G7 summit of world leaders early on Saturday morning, skipping a meeting on climate change.

“Well, it’s gonna be much more than a photo-op. I think it’s a process,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. “I’ve told you that many times before. I think it’s not a one meeting deal. It would be wonderful if it were.”

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un fears being assassinated during his upcoming summit with President Donald Trump in Singapore, his furthest foreign trip since he came to power, according to a report published by Bloomberg Thursday.

Singapore’s foreign minister will visit North Korea from Thursday ahead of the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering extending an invitation to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to visit his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida if nuclear disarmament talks in Singapore go well next week.

South Korea’s Joongang Ilbo, citing “a source familiar” with China-North Korea relations, reported Wednesday that dictator Kim Jong-un requested Chinese economic investment in his country during his most recent summit with counterpart Xi Jinping.

Pubs and bars in Singapore are preparing for the scheduled summit between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un with a menu of specialty drinks inspired by the event.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman will reportedly be in Singapore amid high-stakes negotiations between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un next week. “No matter you might think about his presence. [sic] One thing’s [sic] for sure the ratings

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Tuesday that the U.S.-North Korea summit will be held June 12 at the Capella Hotel on the Singaporean resort island of Sentosa.

North Korea’s state media has not ceased its barrage of antagonistic propaganda against the free world, publishing a column Tuesday declaring that all capitalist societies are “doomed to come to an end” a week before a scheduled summit between dictator Kim Jong-un and the leader of the capitalist world, President Donald Trump.

China’s state-run Global Times did its part to put Beijing at the table with President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un via an editorial Monday stating it is “essential” for China to be involved in any peace deal that officially ends the Korean War.

South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo reported Tuesday that North Korea is demanding the United States help build a “world-class resort” in Wonsan, the port city where it hosted journalists for the alleged shutdown of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site last month as a condition of a peace agreement.

Multiple South Korean newspapers reported on Monday that North and South Korea seek to declare an official end to the Korean War, perhaps as soon as on the date of the scheduled summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un, June 12.

SINGAPORE — The tiny, balmy city-state island of Singapore is bracing for a historic summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un slated to take place there in just one week, on June 12.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called out China for militarizing “artificial features” in the South China Sea — a dig at China’s placing weapons on land features claimed by several countries that China has turned into islands.

SINGAPORE — Although Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to discuss North Korea during his talks with allies and partners at an annual defense conference in Singapore, he is also expected to address the other 800-lb. gorilla in the room — China.

South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon warned in remarks Wednesday that, despite continued planning for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, “quite significant” disagreements remain between the two sides.

North Korea has claimed that it is “high time the U.S. behaved properly” as the possibility of a meeting between President Donald Trump and dictator Kim Jong-un continues to hang in the balance. 

President Donald J. Trump reacted Friday to the latest statement from North Korea, noting the marked change in tone after he canceled a June 12 meeting with dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told Breitbart News on Thursday night that if North Korea is serious in its response to President Donald Trump canceling their summit, then the White House looks forward to hearing from the highest levels of the North Korean government.

A senior White House official told reporters Thursday afternoon that North Korean officials failed to show up at preliminary meetings in advance of a  scheduled meeting between President Donald Trump and dictator Kim Jong-un on June 12, prompting the cancelation of that meeting.

President Donald Trump revealed that Singapore would be the site of his planned meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, scheduled for June 12.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon that he has proposed the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea as a potential location for a U.S.-North Korea denuclearization summit.

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Singapore banned a documentary featuring a Palestinian teenager charged with assaulting Israeli security forces from being screened at a festival Thursday, warning the “inflammatory” work could stir hatred.

In a Sunday editorial, the Chinese Communist paper Global Times blamed the collision of the USS John S. McCain with a tanker near Singapore last week on the arrogant “hegemony mentality” of the United States, which considers “all seas, channels, and ports their backyard through which they can come and go freely.”

A source with direct knowledge of these matters tells Breitbart News that the senior staff at the White House, including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, did not brief President Donald Trump on the collision the Navy destroyer USS John McCain had with an oil tanker near Singapore before he originally seemingly dismissed the incident saying, “that’s too bad.”

Singapore is scheduled to assume the rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations next year, and China wasted no time making it known that it expects Singapore to keep a lid on ASEAN discontent over Chinese adventures in the South China Sea.

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