US-North Korea second summit meeting inconclusive

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump met in Hanoi, Vietnam on 27 February 2019 for their second bilateral summit meeting.
  • The meeting was conducted to hammer out concrete steps for dismantling N. Korea’s nuclear programme and for the withdrawal of US sanctions on the Korean country.
  • However, the meeting ended without any conclusive agreement between the two countries.
  • The first summit was held in June 2018 in Singapore.

Historical Background

  • After the World War II, Korean peninsula was divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
  • The Korean War (1950-53) between Soviet backed North Korea ....
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