NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed credit Friday [4-27-18] for a historic inter-Korean summit and insisted that the United States was ‘not going to be played’ by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump said the U.S. had narrowed down to two or three locations his planned meeting with Kim. The U.S. president pushed back against critics who doubt the North Korea dictator is really willing to give up the nuclear weapons his nation took decades acquiring… ‘We will, I think, come up with a solution. And if we don’t, we will leave the room,’ Trump said. He spoke hours after Kim became the first North Korean leader to visit south of the demarcation line between the two Koreas, meeting with President Moon Jae-in. They pledged in a joint statement to seek a formal end to the Korean War by year’s end and to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons, without specifying how it would be achieved.”
–Matthew Pennington, “Trump takes credit for Koreas’ summit, declares ‘war to end’,” The Associated Press, April 27, 2018