... Congress and sharp criticism Democrats and some Republicans level at virtually all his initiatives, his position looks very different, and makes many people both in the U.S. and abroad doubt his chances for re-election in 2020.
Given the situation, is Kim Jong-un interested in going all in on Donald Trump, even despite the latter’s outwardly favourable conduct toward North Korea? It is doubtful. It is in Kim’s interests to delay any specific agreements to insure himself against Donald Trump’s successor reneging on all the commitments, just like Trump today is withdrawing from the agreements concluded by his predecessors....
US and North Korea have called the Summit a historic success, but it was also a compulsion in light of lack of alternatives
The world is talking of this Summit as a historic moment with hopes that it will bring peace to Korean Peninsula. Reading between the ...
... Valdai Club expert Gleb Ivashentsov, there are many obstacles for the meeting, and we have to wait for what the DPRK will say and how the US will behave before and in course of the negotiations.
The significance of reports on a possible meeting between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should not be overestimated. The US president said that the DPRK leader is ready to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with him. But Kim Jong-un himself did not publicly state anything on the issue. The relevant information comes ...
“The Kremlin really believes the North Korean leadership should get additional assurances and confidence that the United States is not in the regime change business,” Andrey Kortunov, head of the Russian International Affairs Council, a think-tank close to the Russian Foreign Ministry,...
