Trump and Kim: Can They Close the Deal?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Not long ago, they were calling each other names and raising fears of a nuclear war. Now, it is feasible they could together win the Nobel Peace Prize - if they can reach a deal. The mooted meeting between America’s Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could go wrong in many ways. Mr Trump has already talked of walking out. But in a spirit of optimism, this week’s Inquiry hears from those who have brokered some of the world’s most unlikely pacts for advice on how to strike the deal of a lifetime. With Helena Merriman.
(Photo: President Trump, Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images; Photo: Kim Jong Un, Credit: Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me, |
| 0:03.2 | Helena Merriman. Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, |
| 0:08.7 | and an answer. |
| 0:17.0 | It's early April in the US and a plane has just taken off on a top secret mission. It's early April in the US and a plane has just taken off on a top secret mission. |
| 0:23.1 | Inside, the head of the CIA, |
| 0:26.0 | its destination, North Korea. |
| 0:35.0 | A few weeks later, all was revealed. He had a great meeting with Kim Jong-un and got along with him really well, really great. |
| 0:43.0 | Mike Pompeo, now Secretary of State, had just met North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un. |
| 0:50.0 | It was the most high-level contact between the two countries and 20 years. |
| 0:55.0 | Then in May, Pompeo returned to North Korea, |
| 0:58.0 | and this time he came home with something, |
| 1:01.0 | three American prisoners. |
| 1:03.0 | It's an amazing turnaround. Just a few months ago, Trump and Kim were hurling insults at each other |
| 1:14.6 | and there was talk of World War 3. Now the two men are planning to meet face to |
| 1:20.2 | face in the first ever talks between a leader of North Korea and a sitting American |
| 1:25.2 | president. |
| 1:26.2 | We have our meeting schedule, we have our meeting set. |
| 1:29.3 | The location is picked, the time and date date everything is picked. The stage is set but can the two men |
| 1:36.7 | deliver? What does it take to make this kind of peace deal? In this week's |
| 1:42.1 | inquiry you'll hear from three of the world's top |
| 1:44.4 | negotiators, people behind some of the most significant peace deals in history to |
| 1:49.4 | find out how they did it. We're asking, can Trump and Kim close the deal? Part 1, secret friendships. |
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