This combination of pictures created on Nov. 12, 2018 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during the Inter-Korean summit in the Peace House building on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018, and President Donald Trump during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 2018.
The president basked in the aftermath of the first summit, when he declared North Korea that was no longer a nuclear threat.
Still, more than seven months later, North Korea has made no commitments to allow weapons inspections or dismantle its growing arsenal of warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The announcement about the second summit suggested that the U.S. was softening its refusal to relax sanctions against North Korea because Kim had earlier this month threatened to walk away from talks if Trump didn’t compromise.