Seoul — A year after President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un met for the first time, they appear committed to a personal bond on which the hope for peace appears to rest, despite a stalemate in efforts to get Kim to abandon nuclear weapons.

Trump and Kim agreed at the first US-North Korea summit in Singapore to work towards the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, easing fears of war between their countries...

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