U.S.-North Korea summit: “If it’s not a success, I will respectfully leave,” President Donald Trump said Monday, April 30.

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Earlier this month, North Korea claimed to have successfully detonated its first hydrogen bomb as a "self-defense against the U.S." While it was known that the secretive, totalitarian dictatorship had atomic weapons, the assertion to have successfully tested a far more powerful hydrogen bomb has been greeted with skepticism.