Does U.S. President Donald Trump plan to seek a dialogue with North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un? On February 7, as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru , Trump stated, “We will have relations with North Korea,

North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles into its western waters on Monday, hours after South Korea and the United States commenced their largest annual military exercises. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile launches originated from the North's southwestern Hwanghae province and landed in the Yellow Sea west of the Korean Peninsula.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong, criticized the administration of US President Donald Trump for escalating provocations. She states that this justifies the strengthening of North Korea's nuclear deterrent forces,