South Korea took delivery of its first two F-35 jets in March, with more slated to arrive this year. It has agreed to buy a total of 40 of the advanced aircraft, the last to be delivered by 2021. read more

And they need to keep it ajar for enough time for a real road map to be drafted read more

The New York Times described the meeting between Trump and Kim as a masterpiece of drama. read more

Trump met Kim in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, making him the first sitting US president to set foot in the former enemy territory. read more

Here are some of the key quotes from the hastily-arranged “third date” between the pair that was supposed to be a brief hello but turned out to be somewhat more substantive. read more

After shaking hands with Kim over the line that marks where their two countries and their allies fought each other to a standstill in the 1950-53 Korean War, Trump walked for several steps into North Korean territory, before another handshake. read more

Trump has met Kim twice at summits in Singapore and Hanoi. No U.S. president has ever met a North Korean leader in the DMZ. read more

Contact between the two sides has since been minimal -- with Pyongyang issuing frequent criticisms of the US position -- but the two leaders have exchanged a series of letters and Trump turned to Twitter on Saturday to invite Kim to a third diplomatic... read more

Xi opened the meeting with a reference to the ping-pong diplomacy in the 1970s that paved the way for formal diplomatic ties between the U.S. and China. read more

It was not immediately clear what the agenda, if any, would be for the potential third Trump-Kim meeting. read more

The US is demanding that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons entirely before international sanctions are lifted. North Korea is seeking a step-by-step approach in which moves toward denuclearization are matched by concessions from the US, notably... read more

The summit comes at dramatic point in the strategic dance between the three leaders -- with US ties with both China and North Korea on the downswing. read more

But the Chinese side runs the risk of emboldening the North Korean regime read more

Chinese president Xi Jinping will make his first trip to North Korea as president this week. This is the first trip by a top Chinese leader to North Korea in 14 years. read more

It will be the first visit to North Korea by a Chinese President in 14 years; Xi’s predecessor, President Hu Jintao visited Pyongyang in 2005 to meet then-leader, Kim Jong-il while Premier Wen Jiabao visited the country in 2009. read more