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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
North Korean state-run media gave a largely positive review of Thursday’s summit meetings in Hanoi between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, calling it an event of “great significance in building mutual trust.”
A report published Friday by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) referred multiple times to the goals of creating a new relationship and to “completely denuclearize” the Korean Peninsula as spelled out in the Singapore agreement signed last June.