After Singapore talks, what comes next?

It remains to be seen if it was the defining moment in history it was being billed as. Nevertheless, the smooth proceeding of the first ever face-to-face talks between the sitting leaders of the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has yielded positive results.

While it was hard to reconcile nuclear Armageddon with the images of US President Donald Trump and the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un shaking hands, having a friendly chat and sitting down to lunch, that has been the concern of the international community, given the hostilities that has festered over the past more than six decades.

The summit therefore marked a significant step forward in meeting expectations for an end to the animosity between the two countries, and for concerted efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and find solutions to the attendant issues.