Trump hails Kim reappearance but denuclearisation prospects still bleak


A woman walking past a television news screen showing a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending a ceremony to mark the completion of Sunchon phosphatic fertiliser factory, at a railway station in Seoul on May 2. North Korea's Kim Jong-un has made his first public appearance in nearly three weeks, state media reported on May 2, following intense speculation that the leader of the nuclear-armed nation was seriously ill or possibly dead. - AFP

WASHINGTON/SEOUL: US President Donald Trump on Sunday morning (May 3) welcomed the reemergence of North Korea's Kim Jong-un after weeks of speculation about his health, but prospects for the US efforts to persuade Pyongyang to denuclearize appear as bleak as ever.

On Saturday, North Korean media said Kim cut a ribbon at a ceremony on Friday to mark the completion of a fertilizer plant.

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