Name: Trump-Kim meeting: is this really a moment?
Uploaded: 2018-03-12T06:59:43.000Z
Duration: 2 min 7 s
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North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons

and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world

For the past year, the world's been extremely anxious

There must now be hope that we are moving away from the path towards war,

but it's premature to say that it's the end of the crisis.

These are two very volatile leaders, Donald Trump

And also the issues that they need to resolve are very, very difficult.

It's not at all clear that North Korea is ready

to abandon its nuclear weapons programme,

which is what Donald Trump has demanded in the past.

And so if they don't, it may be that the two leaders simply

The risks are that once you have a summit between two leaders,

if they fail, then it's possible that diplomacy has simply

once again at the prospect of a military clash.

who would know in advance, more or less, what

Well, clearly, the two leaders are the most important figures.

This happened essentially because of a South Korean

a South Korean national security advisor in Washington

And it's very important for the US that South Korea stays

the country that is most at risk from the North Korean nuclear programme.

And similarly, you cannot edit China out of this picture.

China is the great sponsor of North Korea.

It will be simultaneously pleased by the idea

that there is some kind of de-escalation going on,

that China has not got a place at the table.

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Trump-Kim meeting: is this really a moment?

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