Korea Expert Sue Mi Terry on High-Stakes Second Trump-Kim Summit

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Center of Strategic and International Studies Senior Fellow and Korea Chair Sue Mi Terry about the state of the U.S.-North Korea relationship and the stakes facing both President Trump and leader Kim Jong Un ahead of their second summit in Vietnam. Terry offers an assessment of Pyongyang’s current capabilities, an overview of why Kim has come to the negotiating table, and outlines the questions that remain unanswered about Kim’s strategic intentions. Terry tells Morell what progress will have to be made in Hanoi for the U.S. to be able to declare it a success.

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0:37.2	I think Kim has gained more than the United States because Singapore summit producer Seaman
0:43.5	basically saying first, we're going to try to have a better relationship.
0:47.2	Secondly, there should be some sort of normalization, steps towards normalization.
0:51.4	And then North Korea said that it would work towards the new creation of the clean peninsula.
0:57.2	There was not an agreement even on what that means.
1:03.3	North Korea was having really having done anything.
1:05.8	They looked more legitimate, Kim Jong-un looks more legitimate.
1:08.6	The North Koreans made cosmetic steps towards this new creation.
1:12.7	Nothing anything concrete.
1:14.7	Meanwhile, we gave North Koreans we stopped their joint exercises.
1:18.9	So we have now made any kind of real progress towards the new creation.
1:25.0	Okay, Sue.
1:26.0	What do you think both sides are thinking going into the summit?
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