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Last year in Singapore, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to work toward the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” This week in Hanoi, they face a much harder task: agreeing on what denuclearization means and figuring out how to move the process forward.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told U.S.-recognized interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaido that the U.S. is behind him “100 percent.” Pence made the comment during a trilateral meeting in Bogota, Colombia, with Guiado and Colombian President Ivan Duque.

VIDEO: If North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to eventually normalize relations with the United States, he will soon be in a country that has done just that. As VOA reports from Hanoi, there’s no better example than Vietnam of foe-turned-friend of the U.S.

VIDEO: One of the unintended consequences of the space race is the amount of junk that’s now floating around our planet. Most of it is little stuff, but even something as small as a screw can do a lot of damage when it’s moving at 17,000 kilometers per hour. That’s why there are now plans to clean up the mess.

In the busy streets of Yangon, Myanmar, access to communication appears to be expanding as mobile phone users can be spotted making calls, sending messages and reading news stories from the internet. But the promises of an open society that helped put the National League for Democracy in power have become a distant dream for many who dare to speak out.