Just over a week remains until the June 12 summit in Singapore, where President Trump is scheduled to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. This is set to be an historic meeting, the first of its kind. According to President Trump it likely won’t be the last.
Conceding that generations of issues with North Korea wouldn’t be resolved in just one meeting between the two, Trump is presenting the summit as the start of a process, potentially a long one, with a “very positive result in the end.”
The main US goal is to get North Korea to agree to denuclearization. Trump had already confirmed that would be a protracted effort in and of itself, given the size of North Korea’s arsenal. The details of how this would take place, and how US security guarantees would happen are likely to be settled in future talks, even if the first meeting does establish a framework for those talks.
Having a process for settling disputes between the US and North Korea would, in and of itself, amount to major progress. The two nations have been in a stage of war since 1950, and have had only very limited interactions up until this year.
US calls for the denuclearization of the N.Korea? But it actually means, it wants that N.Korea to unconditionally destroys all nuclear weapons, sites that manufacture them, and all of its long or even short ballistic missiles.
In return, Trump would ‘promise’ the moon to not only Kim but also Moon.