Trump, who personally greeted the trio at the Andrews Air Force Base, praised Kim for their release ahead of their summit.
US President Trump's announcement came after the North Korean leader warned that Pyongyang may change its approach to nuclear talks if Washington persists with sanctions.
Three days after he was shot while delivering a speech in the western Japanese city of Nara, Abe Shinzo, Japan's longest serving prime minister, began his final journey in Tokyo.
In a wide-ranging interview, the US President said his administration is formulating 'rules and regulations' for the White House reporters.
In Seoul, Nikhil Lakshman discovers, fears about North Korea and its bizarre ways are never far away.
The Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang has been chosen for the meeting in late February.
'Thank you to Chairman Kim Jong Un for keeping your word & starting the process of sending home the remains of our great and beloved missing fallen'
This comes after US President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un held a historic summit in Singapore.
The Trump administration is actively preparing for the June 12 summit between the US President and the North Korean leader.
Trump met North Korean envoy to discuss about Kim's unfulfilled pledge to dismantle nuclear weapons programmes.
Moon Jae-in hope that the summit will open a new era of complete denuclearisation, peace.
The summit at Sentosa -- the first between the two countries -- is a turnaround of relations between the US president, 71, and the North Korean leader, 34, after a long-running exchange of threats and insults.
The US needs to find global support, especially from Russia and China, to make North Korea back down, says Claude Smadja.
A diplomatic incident when the North Korea Olympic women's football team walked off the field after the South Korea flag had been displayed was a "simple human mistake", International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge said on Thursday.
The United States does not see any change in the military posture of North Korea despite threat and recent rhetoric coming from its leadership, the White House said.
The photo-op obsessed North Korean dictator has not been seen in public for 37 days
Trump and Kim are scheduled to meet in Singapore on June 12.
Mirabai Chanu, who has been recuperating from hip tendonitis she suffered during the Asian Games in September last year, has all but qualified for the Paris Olympics.
India's final tally in Hangzhou stood at 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, a quantum leap from the 70 medals the contingent bagged at Jakarta in 2018.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
The two leaders met for a second summit in Vietnam's Hanoi and Trump made these comments during a dinner with Kim.
Veteran Acantha Sharat Kamal raised his game just in time to help the Indian men's team escape unscathed against Kazakhstan at the Asian Games.
"President Trump and President Putin agreed that the suffering in Syria has gone on for far too long and that all parties must do all they can to end the violence," the White House said.
"I believe that a personality like Trump, with his character, will never be hostage to anyone," Putin said.
The bill sanctions Russia -- citing its cyberhacking as well as aggression in Ukraine and Syria -- while also slapping new sanctions on North Korea and Iran.
The latest launch came just five days after Pyongyang fired two short-range ballistic missiles.
A look at Reuters Photojournalist of the Year Damir Sagolj's photographs.
Trump said the summit ended with no agreement because he was not willing to lift all the sanctions on North Korea.
The United Nations Security Council has imposed new sanctions on North Korea for its rocket launch and warned of 'significant action' in the event of a fresh nuclear test, but Pyongyang remained defiant.
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'In the run-up to the summit, Trump had indicated that he might strike a nuclear deal in the course of a single meeting or over several days, but as it transpired, Trump departed Singapore soon after the meeting.' 'This raises questions if his aspirations for an ambitious outcome had been scaled back,' says Rajaram Panda.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter was showered with paper money by a protester before the start of a press conference in Zurich on Monday.
Taipei on Friday termed China's military exercises around the island nation 'highly provocative' after some Chinese aircraft and warships crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait.
France's Winter Olympics team will not travel to the 2018 Games in South Korea if its security cannot be guaranteed, France's sports minister said on Thursday, the first major doubts by a participating nation about growing North Korean tensions.
Trump's tweet came a day after he reluctantly signed into law a bill imposing tough sanctions against Moscow under mounting domestic pressure.
Donald Trump's exaggerated opinion of his dealmaking capacity can get him into trouble, observes R Sriram.
We must bring a laser focus on our own interests, and define our friends and foes more clearly instead of trying to live by somebody else's rules. We must grow up, think for ourselves, think India First, asserts R Jagannathan.
Yonhap news agency reported that the state media on Saturday showed the North Korean leader, who was last seen on April 11, making his first public appearance in 20 days.
Early results suggested that Moon, the Democratic Party's candidate in the election to replace ousted president Park Geun-hye.
