
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday said Washington had been surprised by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s willingness to hold direct talks with the US on the nuclear standoff in the Korean peninsula. “What changed was his posture in a fairly dramatic way,” Tillerson said in Djibouti during ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday hailed a proposed meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “a step in the right direction”. “We do hope that this meeting is going to take place,” Lavrov said after meeting with African Union chairperson Moussa ...