Trump wants another Kim summit, but 3 hurdles stand in way

And in others, he teases out an imminent deal to end a six-month war that has gone pretty much nowhere, only to acknowledge, a day later, that talks aren’t taking place at all.

At first glance, Kim Yo-jong ’s latest message to Washington looked like a rebuff to US President Donald Trump’s insistence that he would meet her brother Kim Jong-un later this year.

President Trump is pushing to rekindle his first-term bromance with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, expressing his desire for another rendezvous after reducing joint military exercises with South Korea in an effort to appease the dictator.

Pyongyang is also aware that time is not on Trump's side.