Let's go over the summit piece-by-piece,... <br />With me in studio is Jung Dae-jin, a research fellow at Ajou Institute of Unification for his take on that historic summit the world watched in Singapore,... thank you for joining us. <br /><br /> Great to be here.<br /><br />>>1<br /> Let's get right to it. Indeed,... what an unusual summit we witnessed between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump,... given that the two countries are still technically in a state of war.<br /> The leaders have headed home after sitting down for a total of five-hours of talks,... as well as signing a joint statement,... <br />A lot of questions being raised about that joint declaration,... but first,... your takeaway from the summit?<br /><br />>>2<br /> The joint document was of course signed by both parties,... showing the craftiness and hardline approach that North Korea took into the summit. <br /> You could say Trump seemed overly confident. <br />As for the results though, who goes home happier? (and why)<br /><br />>>3<br /> Something we don't see in that joint agreement,… a clear miss from the U.S., is that there's no mention of CVID,… something that was talked about a lot in the run up to the meeting.<br />Let's take you back to the post-summit press conference where President Trump expressed his confidence in Kim. <br /><br /> "Chairman Kim says North Korea is also destroying a major missile engine testing site. That's not in your signed document. We agreed to that after the agreement was signed. That's a big thing. The missiles they were testing. The site will be destroyed very soon."<br /><br />There, we see President Trump confident the North Korean leader will stick to his word, though not agreed to on paper. <br />Is Kim's word good enough?<br /><br />>>4<br /> This morning, we learned (from North Korean state media) that Kim Jong-un had demanded President Trump suspend joint military drills between South Korea and the U.S. <br /> Trump, said he's ending, what he calls "war games" in the region,... and that's NOT included in their joint agreement.<br />What do you make of that? Can that be seen as step number one towards ending the decades-long Korean War?<br /><br />>>5<br /> And we saw that video clip before the U.S. President briefed the press on his summit with Kim Jong-un. <br /> The clip, made by the U.S. government, shows what's possible if Kim opens up to the United States, and to the world.<br />We even have Trump talking about real estate business in North Korea... but what kind of impact would western influence have on Kim's regime?<br /><br /><br />>>6<br /> What we saw in Singapore,... in terms of the North Korean leader being framed in front of the global media. <br /> We saw it from the Olympics, to his evening stroll in Singapore, and bits of small talk with President Trump at the Capella Hotel.<br />How do you think Kim has crafted his image on the international stage?<br /><br />>>7<br /> What now?<br />We have U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flying in to South Korea today for talks with President Moon Jae-in as well with his counterparts from Seoul and Tokyo,... something seen as a post-summit diplomacy.<br />
