January 4, 2019

Six months after his historic summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump has still not succeeded in his goal of getting the North Korean leader to relinquish his nuclear weapons.

But after both leaders used the New Year's holiday to declare their willingness to meet again, a second summit may be in the works that could deliver real results - though they may look different from what Trump initially promised.

There was something different about Kim's New Year's address this year. Delivered from a leather armchair in what looked to be his library, it seemed designed to cast away old images of North Korea as a pariah state with an authoritarian leader at the helm. Instead of addressing a large crowd from a podium, a suited Kim spoke directly to the camera from a book-lined room.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/trump-kim-ready-meet-time-190103235044543.html