Senior White House Official. Last week, North Korea objected to a routine annual joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea. The White House sent its Deputy Chief of Staff, who leads White House planning in advance of presidential visits and his advance teams to Singapore. And today, to great fanfare, North Korea claims to have destroyed its Punggye-ri nuclear test site. On the subject of communications between the United States and North Korea, I regret that the news has also been spotty.

Source: CNN May 27, 2018 15:33 UTC