Keeping a close watch on peninsula talks
Donald Trump became the first incumbent US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as well as set foot in the Demilitarized Zone between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea on Sunday. And his meeting with DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un was their third since they first met in Singapore in June last year to start talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
These, no doubt, are historic developments. But the world should understand the practical meaning of the latest Trump-Kim meeting.
After what many consider the failure of the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February and with tensions rising on the peninsula, the Sunday meeting showed that both Washington and Pyongyang needed such an occasion to take things forward.
