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John Oliver kicked off Last Week Tonight explaining how the June 12 summit between the U.S. and North Korea was suddenly back on over and un-read clown letter. Last week, President Donald Trump met with senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol who had brought Trump this comically oversized letter from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Trump had his picture taken holding the clown letter, standing next to the North Korean envoy. “And as if smiling while holding a letter from a dictator were not enough of a propaganda coup for North Korea, the president raved about the letter to the press,” Oliver marveled. In footage of Trump’s latest impromptu presser on the White House lawn, after the photo-op, Trump teased the gaggle: “Oh, would you like to see what was in that letter! Wouldn’t you like? How much? How much?” “It was a very interesting letter. At some point, I’ll be able to give it to you, maybe,” Trump added. Oliver noted Trump would make an even worse Moses than he is a president: “Oh, wouldn’t you like to see what’s in these tablets! Maybe I’ll show you later – if you’re lucky.” Even stranger, about eight minutes later in the presser, after calling the letter interesting, Trump told the reporters: “I haven’t seen the letter yet. I purposefully did not open the letter. I haven’t opened it…I said [to Kim Yong Chol] “Would you want me to open it?’ He said, ‘You can read it later.'” “I may be in for a big surprise, folks!” Trump told the reporters, as he walked away, smiling. Oliver agreed. “Yeah you might, though! Because you just agreed to a summit without reading the contents of the letter that supposedly convinced you to do it!” “Worst-case scenario: it’s a declaration of war. Best cast scenario it says: Later in his show, Oliver also made reference to the controversy over fellow The Daily Show alum Samantha Bee having called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t” in the latest edition of her late-night show Full Frontal. Some have demanded TBS cancel the program. Bee has apologized in a statement, and says she will address the controversy again on this week’s edition. During a segment about the bilking of seniors by corrupt wards, Oliver told a joke having to do with the concept of time on the planet Mercury – a gag he said was designed exclusively for astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and wondered what Tyson thought of the gag. Tyson said the joke was not factually up to snuff and explained why. “Shut up Neil! Why do you have to ruin everything!” Oliver began to scream. “Just enjoy something, for once in your f*cking life! What is wrong with you, you feckless – oh, never mind, it’s not worth it. Bad idea.” Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy

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Update 2:43 pm: This afternoon White House Secretary Sarah Sanders said that President Trump told Energy Secretary Rick Perry to "prepare immediate steps" to prevent coal plants from early closure. Original Story 9:10am: In a draft memo to be circulated on Friday, the Department of Energy (DOE) argues in favor of using a wartime rule called the Defense Production Act to bail out failing coal and nuclear plants, according to Bloomberg, which obtained a copy of the memo. The memo suggests that the Energy Department could force grid operators to buy power or electric generation capacity from a list of pre-determined power plants for two years, “to forestall any future actions toward retirement, decommissioning or deactivation.” During that time, the DOE would conduct a study of vulnerabilities in the US power grid system. The justification for using the Defense Production Act would be that keeping unprofitable power plants running is a matter of national security until the two-year vulnerability study is complete. The memo allegedly wrote that "Too many of these fuel-secure plants have retired prematurely and many more have recently announced retirement." According to Bloomberg, the memo added that these coal and nuclear plants are being replaced by natural gas and renewable power generation that is not secure or resilient. Such a statement has been contradicted by several power grid operators, including PJM, one of the largest independent system operators in the country. The recent "bomb cyclone" system of extremely cold weather in the Northeast this winter showed off that the grid could operate well despite coal retirements. Boosting the flagging coal industry was one of the key campaign promises of President Trump, despite the fact that it's one of the most polluting forms of energy that the US has, and it employs significantly fewer people than either the natural gas, oil, or solar power industries. Over the previous year, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has tried to justify a number of different actions to make good on Trump's promise, to little avail. Initially, Perry issued a politically charged memo commissioning a study to find the regulatory causes of coal retirements. The resulting study, however, said that no particular regulation was causing coal plants to retire: instead the cheap cost of natural gas was convincing power companies to switch over to that fuel. Perry then proposed a rule that would require power purchasers to compensate coal and nuclear plants over and above the compensation they were already due for their part in supplying "baseload" energy. However, the rule had to be approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and that regulatory body found that there wasn't sufficient evidence to approve Perry's rule. Failing that, coal and nuclear plant operator FirstEnergy requested that the DOE use an emergency order to bail out one of the company's subsidiaries shortly before it declared bankruptcy. In April, E&E News reported that an interagency group was exploring the use of the Defense Production Act, which gives the president broad power to boost industries that are deemed necessary for national defense. The draft memo circulated today is not an official proposal for a rule, but it does suggest that the Trump administration is getting more serious about invoking the Defense Production Act to the benefit of coal and nuclear.

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has called out the European Union for opposing trade negotiations at a time when China was willing to hold talks. "China are paying their tariffs," Ross told the panel at an economic development forum in Paris on Wednesday, in response to EU criticism of sweeping import tariffs the White House announced on its trade partners all over the world in March. "China hasn't used that as an excuse not to negotiate... It's only the EU that is insisting we can't negotiate if there are tariffs," he added. President Donald Trump's protectionist move, which would impose a 25 percent levy on all steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum, garnered instant criticism upon its announcement from Republicans and Democrats alike and saw trade partners threatening to retaliate. The administration has delayed the imposition of the levies, extending negotiations with partners Canada, the EU and Mexico by 30 days to the tail end of May. Leaders now await a decision from Washington. EU lawmakers have said they are open to discussions, but would not "negotiate under threat" — this was reiterated by Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Minister Sigrid Kaag, also on the panel, who expressed a stark difference in opinion from her American counterpart. "EU leaders have expressed the expectation that there should be an unlimited exemption," Kaag said in response to Ross, pointing out that the U.S. and Europe are historic allies across a number of areas from trade to security, making them a wholly different case to China. "We're finding ourselves in a situation we shouldn't be at," she said, adding that, "dialogue with the U.S. remains primordial… the fact China continues negotiations I don't think applies to us in this case, I don't think that's an argument. I understand, but I disagree." Kaag said the European bloc would wait for a decision in the coming days, reiterating that the U.S. remains very important and that she believed they would find a way forward. "I'm sure we will, and there can be negotiations with or without tariffs in place," Ross said. "God knows, there are plenty of tariffs the EU has on us. So it's not that you can't talk just because there are tariffs."

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The Syrian regime is threatening to move against an antigovernment stronghold in the country’s southwest, raising pressure on Russia to keep Iran and its proxies out of a fight that could inflame tensions with Syria’s neighbor, Israel. The Syrian military has dropped leaflets urging rebels to surrender and carried out scattered artillery attacks on their positions in the southwest province of Daraa. One of the regime’s strongest militia has been redeployed from the capital Damascus to the region, where proregime media have reported preparations for a “full-scale assault” by government forces. Rebels say, however, that the regime is trying to pressure them into a negotiated settlement without a fight. “We haven’t seen the army amassing in the south,” said Raed Radi, a commander of a Daraa rebel group. “There is a propaganda war being waged by the regime.” The maneuvers have cast a spotlight on a particularly complicated corner of Syria bordering both Israel and Jordan. For nearly a year, Russia, the U.S. and Jordan have backed a tenuous cease-fire that has allowed Syrian rebels to establish relative stability in the country’s southwest, stretching across the provinces of Daraa and Quneitra. Now the prospect that Iranian-backed forces, broadly present in regime-controlled areas, could join an offensive there is raising tensions with Israel and complicating Moscow’s ties with Tehran. Russia has joined with Iran to back Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in retaking large parts of the country, but Moscow also wants to avoid getting drawn into a fight with Israel and the U.S. The current cease-fire in the region sti[CENSORED]tes that no foreign forces should be present there. With Islamic State nearing defeat in Syria, Israeli officials said they see a welcome and growing opportunity for Russia to push Iran out of the country entirely. “My assessment is the Russians are interested in stabilizing their achievements in Syria, formidable achievements, and I think they too understand that if the Iranians continue on the present course, this will lead to escalation and will blow their plans out of the water,” Chagai Tzuriel, director general of Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence told reporters Monday. “I think they don’t want this either.” In a surprise meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “It is necessary for all foreign forces to withdraw from” Syria. The comment, widely interpreted as a swipe against Iran, came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow earlier this month. It was echoed on Monday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said only Syrian forces should be deployed in southern Syria. Iran has been facing growing pressure over its presence in Syria. Earlier this month, Israel carried out its largest-ever military operation against Iranian positions in Syria, striking dozens of Iranian military sites across the southern and central parts of the country, including targets related to logistics, intelligence and ammunition storage. In the preceding weeks, Israel carried out other smaller strikes on Iranian military targets, having said it wouldn’t allow Tehran to entrench itself in Syria. The U.S. has also increased pressure on Tehran, with President Donald Trump withdrawing from a nuclear deal with Iran that eased sanctions on its battered economy. This month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined 12 requirements for a new nuclear deal with Iran, including Tehran curtailing its military interventions in the Middle East and withdrawing all its forces from Syria. On Tuesday, Mr. Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel’s position that Israel won’t allow any Iranian military entrenchment anywhere in Syria. Russia, which directly intervened on behalf of the Assad regime in 2015, has vowed not to carry out airstrikes in support of any military offensive in the southwest. But reeling in Iran could prove challenging. Israeli officials say there are indications Russia is prepared to compel Iranian forces, including the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, to move back from the Israeli border with southwestern Syria. Israel isn’t counting on that possibility alone, however. “We are acting against an Iranian military presence anywhere on Syrian territory,” Mr. Netanyahu said Tuesday. “An Iranian departure from southern Syria alone will not suffice.” It remains unclear how much leverage Russia actually has over Iran, whether in the south or any other part of Syria. Southern rebel commanders say Iranian and other foreign Shiite militias have remained stationed in regime-held parts of Daraa province. As the Syrian regime has emerged victorious against antigovernment rebels elsewhere in Syria, the relationship between Russia and Iran has come under strain as they pursue diverging interests. Russia’s response to Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria has been muted. The U.S., meanwhile, has expressed concern that any offensive in southwestern Syria could jeopardize stability along Jordan and Israel’s borders. On Friday, the State Department warned the U.S. “will take firm and appropriate measures in response to Assad regime violations” of the regional cease-fire, but officials haven’t said what such steps would be. —Suha Ma’ayeh, Dov Lieber, Thomas Grove and Michael R. Gordon contributed to this article. Write to Raja Abdulrahim at raja.abdulrahim@wsj.com and Felicia Schwartz at Felicia.Schwartz@wsj.com

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a surprise meeting at the demilitarized zone Saturday aimed at keeping inter-Korean relations, and a possible summit between Mr. Kim and President Donald Trump, on track. South Korea’s presidential office announced the two-hour meeting after it had wrapped up, saying the two leaders met on the north side of the demilitarized zone and discussed how to successfully stage a summit between Messrs. Trump and Kim. The meeting—the fourth in history between leaders of the two Koreas—was the latest dramatic turn in a series of diplomatic maneuvers as the U.S. and South Korea seek to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. It followed an April 27 summit between Messrs. Moon and Kim on the south side of the line dividing the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, at which the two men signed a Panmunjom Declaration vowing an end to war and hostilities between the two sides. It also came days after Mr. Trump abruptly scrapped a planned summit with Mr. Kim in Singapore on June 12—only to say a day later that it might still take place. “The two leaders exchanged frank opinions on the implementation of the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration and the successful staging of a U.S.-North Korean summit,” said Yoon Young-chan, a spokesman for South Korea’s presidential office, in a statement Saturday evening. Mr. Moon will share the details of the meeting Sunday at 10 a.m. Seoul time, Mr. Yoon added. Photos and video released by the presidential Blue House on Saturday showed Mr. Moon in a bear hug with Mr. Kim, and of the two men wearing broad grins as they shook hands. They met at Unification Pavilion, a building on the north side of the military demarcation line, the South said. Other photos showed Mr. Moon being greeted by Mr. Kim’s younger sister Kim Yo Jong, and of the South Korean leader sitting across a table with Mr. Kim and Kim Yong Chol, a four-star North Korean general who has been a constant presence at the North Korean leader’s side in recent weeks. Mr. Moon was accompanied by Suh Hoon, the South’s spy chief. The meeting was the second between Messrs. Moon and Kim in as many months, and the fourth ever between the leaders of the two Koreas. Kim Jong Un’s father Kim Jong Il met with South Korea’s presidents in 2000 and 2007, both times in Pyongyang. Saturday’s summit showed that Messrs. Kim and Moon are both eager to keep the diplomatic momentum going despite recent setbacks, said Markus Bell, a lecturer in Korean and Japanese studies at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. “ Donald Trump has been flip-flopping on whether he’s going to get involved and move forward on a summit, and he’s given the window for North Korea to look like the levelheaded, rational actor,” Mr. Bell said. Jenny Town, a research analyst at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington and managing editor of 38 North, a North Korea-focused blog, said Mr. Moon’s ability to hold a snap meeting with Mr. Kim highlights the willingness of both leaders to engage in back-channel diplomacy. “They feel comfortable enough to have direct communication and to be able to meet on short notice,” Ms. Town said, adding that the body language between them underscored that. Mr. Kim greeted Mr. Moon, she said, “like an old friend, instead of an awkward handshake.” Mr. Moon had been a chief proponent of direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang, and said he was “perplexed” by Mr. Trump’s cancellation of the meeting. Go Myong-Hyun of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a private think tank in Seoul, said the two Korean leaders may also have been motivated by an attempt to stave off a return to U.S.-led pressure and sanctions against Pyongyang, as Mr. Trump said this week. “The ultimate goal of this summit was to ensure that ‘maximum pressure’ doesn’t surface again in Washington after the cancellation of the U.S.-North Korea summit,” Mr. Go said. Mr. Moon, eager to keep talks on track, was able to draw on his historically high domestic approval ratings to continue to push things forward with the North, even in the face of Mr. Trump’s calls for a return to “maximum pressure,” Mr. Bell said. “Moon has positioned himself as the peacemaker, and he’s riding the wave of 80% approval to basically push forward his agenda to reach out to North Korea,” he said. The message from Messrs. Moon and Kim, he added, was: “Why do we need the U.S. doing anything if Trump is going to oscillate between ‘fire and fury’ and sharing a hamburger with Kim? Maybe we should move things forward by ourselves.” —Andrew Jeong contributed to this article. Write to Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com