Following an hour and a half meeting between President Trump and Kim
Yong Chol, the second summit between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
has been announced, tentatively scheduled for late February.
The White House said that the meeting will take place, but the exact date and time will be disclosed to the public at some time in the future. It’s not clear if those details have been worked out privately yet.
Trump and Kim held their first summit in Singapore on June 12. This
historical summit was extremely successful, leading to an announced deal
on nuclear disarmament. Since then, mounting US sanctions have raised
tensions, and US officials have complained North Korea hasn’t met all US
demands.
Either way, the White House says there will be no sanctions relief, or
any dialing back of US pressure in the lead up to the talks. North
Korea’s hope to reach a peace deal ending the generations long Korean
War and progress toward normalization are major goals, and it will be
difficult for President Trump to convince them to speed up
denuclearization without getting at least some of that in return.
Second Trump-Kim Summit Will Be Held in Late February
White House says all sanctions will remain in place
Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
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