International News: President Trump and Kim Jung Un Meet in Vietnam
By Nate Feldman
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean President Kim Jung Un arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday to begin meetings about North Korea's nuclear program. The U.S. President's goal is to persuade North Korea to end its controversial program and seek a peaceful relationship with other countries.
The two leaders previously met in Singapore in 2018, a landmark meeting between the two countries, which have had a strained relationship since the division of the Korean peninsula into the communist north and the more or less capitalist south in the last century.
According to reporters on the ground, it is unclear what, if anything, will be the result of these discussions. For now, according to an article in the New York Times, it seems that President Trump would just like to get Kim Jung Un to cease the testing of nuclear weapons before moving on to eliminating their arsenal completely (See "Seeking North Korea Deal, Trump Seems Willing to Ease U.S. Demands" by Sanger and Sang-Hun).
Regardless of what happens, however, it is intriguing to see where all of this diplomacy goes.
I hope the Summit between the two leaders will take place well and achieve successful results.
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