US strikes on Iran could lead to another Trump-Kim summit at Panmunjom: US expert

The recent U.S. bombings on Iranian nuclear sites could open up the possibility of another meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un like their previous dramatic encounter at the inter-Korean border in 2019, an American expert said Monday. Victor Cha, president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), raised the view, but said it will be under "a different context," as Kim would now want to negotiate security assurances rather than denuclearization. "President Trump famously likes his friend in North Korea and he's scheduled to go to APEC in Korea at the end of October. Who knows what could happen there? He could go up to Panmunjom to meet the North Korean leader again," Cha said during a panel discussion hosted by the CSIS. Panmunjom is the truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas. Trump and Kim met there in June 2019. "But in a different context, because the show of military force by the United States may cause Kim to say, 'I need some insurance thatWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times