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Forget the nuclear summit — North Korea's news agency focuses on a fish restaurant

SINGAPORE - The rest of the world's media may be fixated on the meeting here between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, with headlines and details about the high-stakes nuclear summitry.

But on Saturday, with three days to go, the top item on the website of the Korean Central News Agency, the government-run media that is the only legal news outlet in North Korea, focused on Kim's visit to a glitzy new seafood restaurant in Pyongyang.

Indeed, the KCNA has largely remained silent on the summit since May 24, when it ran a strongly

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