now let's turn to another international expert for more analysis of the results
from the Hanoi summit we connect to kim de Raymond a professor of political
science at Georgia State University it's a pleasure to have you with us professor
well those were dashed in Hanoi after the two leaders meeting ended much
earlier than anticipated and no agreement of us reach what's your
overall assessment well I think it's both disappointing but also not really
that surprising obviously it's very disappointing because there was a lot of
hype around this meeting and everybody wanted some kind of clear indication
that we're moving forward and that progress is being made so I think that
it is like many people have said very disappointing that there has been no
concrete results however I think it's not that surprising there are
long-standing differences between the two sides these
are positions that have been firmly placed that both sides have been firmly
holding on to for a very very long time so expecting a sudden change in those
positions is in some ways probably unrealistic and I think as we saw in the
talks or at least the announcements of what the outcome of the talks were that
these positions are still very firmly entrenched and we haven't seen much
movements in that and that's going to make it very difficult for movement
forward well in terms of progress toward denuclearization and sanctions relief it
seems the two sides still have a wide gap to overcome do you think they will
be able to narrow their differences next time they meet well first of all I hope
there is a next meeting and hopefully what came out of this current meeting is
that at the meeting itself the talks that we didn't hear about actually move
the discussion forward even if they weren't able to come up with an
agreement for this time it's very difficult and negotiation process is
difficult it's really a billion dollar question can the
besides come up with small enough concessions on both sides that they can
come up with some kind of agreement to have some kind of plan to move forward
the United States will always be pushing for really clear signs of a dignity
organization that are irreversible and all that but that and they will not be
bending on removing all the sanctions so the question is I think what can North
Korea come up what kind of compromises can they come up with that are small
steps on both sides to continue the discussion going and to get us to a
better place where we can find some other agreement but there it is a really
hard agreement to reach that's why this problem has continued for literally
decades well there was no deal and there's certainly a lack of agreement
there but not all hope is lost Trump did mention that he expects progress to be
made over the next few weeks though no date has been set for another summit
what do you think will happen next will the two sides be able to return to the
negotiating table in the near future well I think that the talks did end on a
more positive note considering the fact that there was no agreement I think that
the Trump administration made very clear attempts to not make this a negative bad
kind of meeting because they do want to continue the talks and I think that both
Trump and Kim are very committed to this because the alternative is really not
all that great and also because they have personal kind of leadership you
know questions at stake with this they have a lot to gain personally in terms
of their reputations and that sort of thing I don't think either side is
willing to let go of these talks right away and hopefully there was enough
give-and-take in some of the discussions that they were having that we didn't
hear about to move the negotiations forward in the future so I do think
there is some possibility for this I don't think either side is quite ready
to walk away completely from this it may not happen immediately but I know
that there has been a lot of you know indications from the Trump
administration that they aren't you know just running away from this at all but
they want to continue working on it well thank you so much professor I mean for
your insights and your time today thank you for calling on me