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White House Puts Conditions on North Korea Summit

10/03/2018 GMT

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White House says it wants “concrete actions” from North Korea before it agrees on summit

The White House says it wants “concrete actions” from North Korea before it agrees on summit

President Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un have tentatively agreed to meet following months of tension and insults. No sitting US president has ever met a North Korean leader, so will the summit actually take place? 

Also in the programme: The Jews of Shanghai; and could record shops be making a comeback?

(Picture: (L) North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken on 23rd December 2017 and (R) President Donald Trump speaking to the press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on 9th February 2018. Credit: KCNA via KNS/Saul Leob/AFP/Getty Images)

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