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FILE - This July 25, 2019, file photo provided by the North Korean government shows a test of a missile launch in North Korea. North Korea on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019 said that its rubber-stamp parliament will hold its second meeting of the year on Aug. 29. It follows weeks of intensified North Korean weapons tests and belligerent statements over U.S.-South Korea military exercises and the slow pace of nuclear negotiations with the United States.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 verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea boosts Kim’s rising status as global statesman

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

In this June 12, 2019, photo, North Korean soldiers look at the South side, seen during a press tour at the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), South Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday, June 29, 2019, invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to shake hands during a visit by Trump to the DMZ with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

DMZ, where Trump met Kim, is a vestige of Cold War

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this March 5, 2019, photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at Pyongyang station as Kim returned home on Tuesday after traveling a day and a half by train from Vietnam, where his high-stakes nuclear summit with President Donald Trump ended without any agreement, in Pyongyang. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim returns home after failed nuclear diplomacy with Trump

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this image made from Japan’s TBS TV video on early Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a habitual smoker, takes a pre-dawn smoke break at the train station in Nanning, China, hours before his arrival in Vietnam for his high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump over resolving the international standoff over the North’s nuclear weapons and missiles. (TBS-JNN via AP)

On his way to Vietnam, Kim Jong Un took an early smoke break

By Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, photo, a guide stands near a basketball shoe display in a product exhibition room at the Ryuwon Shoe Factory that specializes in sports footwear, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean pop culture, long dismissed by critics as a kitschy throwback to the dark days of Stalinism, is getting a major upgrade under leader Kim Jong Un. The changes are being seen in everything from television dramas and animation programs to the variety and packaging of consumer goods, which have improved significantly under Kim. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

K-pop and fancy sneakers: Kim Jong Un’s cultural revolution

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Keeping Pyongyang’s ambition in sight

By Ted Poe

People watch a TV showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over an extravagant military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Thursday, grabbing the spotlight on the eve of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea to thumb his nose at Washington while making a point of showing off his new-found restraint toward Seoul.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Analysis: As Olympics begin, 2 Koreas navigate an odd moment

By FOSTER KLUG and ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, shows what was said to be North Korea leader Kim Jung Un, center, applauding after the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. Keeping North Korea from having a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile has long been considered a key U.S. red line; and one Pyongyang has thumbed its nose at for years. Its Fourth of July ICBM launch is just the latest step in its long march toward, and maybe over, that line. (KRT via AP Video)

How North Korea made it from Kim’s New Year’s boast to ICBM

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this image made from video broadcast by North Korean broadcaster KRT, soldiers take part in a parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Saturday, April 15, 2017. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appeared in a massive parade in the capital, Pyongyang, celebrating the birthday of his late grandfather and North Korea founder Kim Il Sung. (KRT via AP)

The Latest: Japan says it must remain on alert over N. Korea

By Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot’

By Joseph C. Goulden

The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un does not appear interested in holding sincere talks on giving up his nuclear arms. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: North Korea collapse leaves uncertain hand on nuclear weapons

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves April 15, 2012, from a balcony at the end of a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square. (Associated Press)

North Korea confirms leader Kim Jong Un is married

By Sam Kim - Associated Press

** FILE ** North Korean students who were selected as delegates to the Korean Children's Union pay their respects in front of bronze statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un stages massive children’s rally

By Associated Press

Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meets with a delegation from the Associated Press at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Top N. Korean official dismisses concerns about Kim Jong-un

By Jean H. Lee - Associated Press

In this undated photo released Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un, right, inspects the Pyongyang Folk Park under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

North Korea signals it’s open to U.S. disarmament deal

By Foster Klug and Matthew Pennington - Associated Press