Denuclearization in the DPRK's best interests

Editor's note: The summit between US President Donald Trump and Democratic People's Republic of Korea top leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi, Vietnam, is their second meeting in eight months. Fang Ning, a researcher in politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, comments in his interview with Guancha.cn:

Their first meeting put a solution to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue on a positive track.

But Pyongyang needs Washington to provide some assurances in exchange for its denuclearization, which is being used by some people in the United States as a stick with which to beat Trump. It is almost impossible for the president to give a quick answer that Kim keenly awaits.