US President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un are finally meeting, the White House confirmed on Monday night June 04,2018
The meeting will take place in Singapore on June 12 at 6.30 am India time. The meeting is being hailed as the summit of the year.
What Does Trump Want?
Donald Trump has clearly spelt out that he wants to denuclearise North Korea. After pulling out of the Iran deal, Trump sees an opportunity in North Korea. Trump administration is so confident of a favourable outcome that it is understood to have conveyed its message to the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The IAEA team is preparing to resume inspection of nuclear facilities in North Korea and is said to be ready to leave for the country "within weeks". The inspection work had to stop abruptly in 2009, when Pyongyang under the regime of Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il expelled IAEA inspectors from its Yongbyon nuclear site.
Donald Trump's second objective is increasing US's foothold on the Korean peninsula and thereby some control over the Yellow Sea that separates two Koreas from China. The US already has about 30,000 forces in South Korea along its border of North Korea. A friendly North Korea may help the US reduce its military bill on the peninsula while still being in a position to keep an eye on China.
What Does Kim Jong-un Want?
For Kim, recognition of his rule and nuclear power status of North Korea is the prime objective. North Korea under Kim Jong-un has maintained that nuclear bomb is essential to its existence and security. Kim Jong-un has asserted many a time that North Korean nuclear and military powers must not be ignored.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have had no love lost between them. They have had exchanges that were considered "unsuitable" for their respective public offices.
Kim Jong-un called Donald Trump an "old man" to which the US President termed the North Korean leader as "short and fat" while asserting that he would never use such a language.
This is the first time that a sitting US president will meet the supreme leader of North Korea. Former US President Jimmy Carter (1977-81) and Bill Clinton (1992-2000) had met the reigning North Korean leaders but only after vacating the White House. Carter met Kim II-sung in 1994 while Clinton met Kim Jong-il in 2009.
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