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In this image made from video, Kim Yong Chol, center top, a senior North Korean official, walks across the tarmac at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport upon his arrival Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Kim is in New York for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aimed at salvaging a summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, in the North's highest-level mission to the United States in 18 years. (AP Photo/Joe Frederick)

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NKorean official lands in US for talks with Pompeo

by Josh Lederman Associated Press, Matthew Lee Associated Press, and Christopher Bodeen Associated PressMay 30, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, as Vice President Mike Pence looks on, right.

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Trump cancels summit with Kim; NKorea still wants to talk

by Catherine Lucey Associated Press, Zeke Miller Associated Press, and Matthew Lee Associated PressMay 25, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands following a news conference at the State Department, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Pence comments rile NKorea anew

by Matthew Lee Associated Press, and Matthew Pennington Associated PressMay 23, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, in Washington, Monday, May 21, 2018. Pompeo is threatening to place “the strongest sanctions in history” on Iran if its government doesn’t change course. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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US demands wholesale changes in Iran policies

by Josh Lederman Associated Press, and Matthew Lee Associated PressMay 21, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at Pyonyang, North Korea airport on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. It began with quiet words from State Department officials: Apply for a new passport immediately. You may soon be going to a country for which ordinary U.S. passports are not valid for travel.

Column: Traveling with Pompeo on secret mission to North Korea

by Matthew Lee AP Diplomatic WriterMay 12, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at Pyonyang, North Korea airport on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. It began with quiet words from State Department officials: Apply for a new passport immediately. You may soon be going to a country for which ordinary U.S. passports are not valid for travel. (AP Photo/Matthew Lee, Pool)

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2 trips to North Korea with top US diplomat, 18 years apart

by Matthew Lee AP Diplomatic WriterMay 11, 2018

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, back, shakes hands with former North Korean detainees Kim Dong Chul, with Kim Hak Song, upon their arrival Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

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Trump-Kim summit arranged

by Zeke Miller Associated Press, Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Matthew Lee Associated PressMay 10, 2018

In this Wednesday, May 9, 2018, photo provided on Thursday, May 10, 2018, by the North Korean government, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting at Workers' Party of Korea headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently...

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Three Americans freed from NKorea

by Matthew Lee Associated Press, and Zeke Miller Associated PressMay 9, 2018

FILE - In this April 29, 2016, file photo, Kim Dong Chul, center, a U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, is escorted to his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has left North Korea with three American detainees, one of them Kim Dong Chul, who were released ahead of an upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the U.S. president said in a tweet Wednesday.(AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)

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Trump says Pompeo returning from North Korea with detainees

by Matthew Lee Associated Press, and Catherine Lucey Associated PressMay 9, 2018

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian police units entering the town of Douma, site of a suspected chemical weapons attack and the last rebel town in the eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 14, 2018. The entry of government forces to Douma follows a Russian-mediated deal that secured the surrender and evacuation of the rebels and thousands of civilians from the town.

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Certain of gas attack, allies struck Syria before UN report

by Matthew Lee AP Diplomatic WriterApril 14, 2018