The United States and South Korea on Sunday said they will scale back their annual joint military drills in a diplomatic concession to North Korea following last week’s failed summit. The defense chiefs from both countries agreed to replace the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle drills with smaller, revised field training programs and command post exercises, the Pentagon said in a statement.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday ahead of their second summit. Trump landed late in the day on Air Force One, while Kim arrived earlier and visited the North Korean Embassy in Hanoi. The White House said the two-day summit will begin Wednesday with an official greeting and a private dinner, followed by several official meetings on Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney will attend the dinner. Kim traveled with his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, and his top representative for U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are preparing for a second summit in Vietnam next week. Intelligence officials have said Pyongyang is still advancing its nuclear program, but U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday cited progress, noting that North Korea hasn’t tested nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles in more than a year. “So that’s better than the place we found it when the Trump administration came into office,” Pompeo said in an appearance on NBC’s Today show.

The top North Korean diplomat in Italy and his wife went into hiding in November in a possible defection, a South Korean member of Parliament said Thursday. The South Korean National Intelligence Service briefed Parliament on the possible defection of North Korean acting Ambassador to Italy Jo Song Gil on Thursday. Kim Min-ki, one of the lawmakers briefed, said the spy agency reported Jo and his wife vacated their official residence in early November before he wrapped up his service late that month.

The international law enforcement agency Interpol on Wednesday appointed South Korean Kim Jong Yang as its new president. The decision was made during the agency’s annual assembly this week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, attended by most of its 194 member countries. Kim had been serving as acting president after China detained former President Meng Hongwei as part of an anti-corruption sweep in September. “Our world is now facing unprecedented changes, which present huge challenges to public security and safety,” Kim said.

School choice advocates are spinning last week’s election results in the most positive light possible.

“School choice victorious in the 2018 elections,” read the headline on a press release issued by the American Federation for Children.

That’s a bit of a stretch. While voters elected pro–school choice candidates in many states, they dealt a significant blow to the choice movement’s flagship initiative—the education savings account (ESA).