let's now take a chance to hear from a foreign experts to hear foreign experts
perspective on this huge issue the historic meeting of the leaders of the
two Koreas in the United States is being closely observed around the world that's
not connected to Bruce W Bennett a senior defense researcher at the RAND
Corporation thank you so much for joining us to do so the prospect of a
meeting with the Kim jong-un in the DMZ came as a surprise in form of a tweet
but of course many say it had been planned beforehand either way what can
we expect out of this historic meeting president Trump said it's just a step
but could it lead to a more in-depth discussion perhaps a working-level talks
may be well I think the first thing we have to recognize is the president has
described this as a two-minute meeting if it's two minutes it's going to be
very hard to have any substance even setting follow-on discussions if it's 10
minutes or 20 minutes that might be different but so far all we know is that
it's planned to be just very short I think though the key thing is will the
president have a specific proposal that he wants to give kim jeong-hoon
that hopefully will make a difference in the subsequent discussions now we've
seen a flurry of development since Kim and Trump last met in Hanoi including
the summits between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim jong-un as well as
Russian President Putin and Kim jong-un and of course the exchange of personal
letters between Kim and Trump do you expect a possible change in Washington's
stance in there in terms of their denuclearization approach well
Washington insisted after Hanoi about to talk about the end state of negotiations
I think many people have misunderstood that they were insisting upon a one-step
deal they were instead trying to get to a 1/2 to an end state and define what
that is because at Hanoi Kim was asking for
about 70% of the end state while offering about 5% and that was
unacceptable so you have to define what it is we're trying to go towards then
you can talk about step by step hopefully that's the kind of thing that
we're going to move to but unless they take more than a few minutes they're not
going to do that on this occasion now on a related note president moon jaein says
dismantlement of young beyond nuclear sites is an irreversible step in
denuclearization but do you think scrapping one nuclear slide would be
enough for Trump well and there you get to the problem that occurred at at Hanoi
at Hanoi President Trump asked kim jeong-hoon if indeed all of the assets
associated with the young beyond facility would be part of the deal and
kim told him no that a particular uranium enrichment facility would not be
so this was already not a full young beyond and even if you close down all of
Young Gun you're only removing about 30 to 40 percent of North Korea's uranium
enrichment capability so I think we have to recognize that young Young's not
irreversible Kim could still continue to increase the number of his nuclear
weapons with what he was offering at Hanoi we have to get something more or
get something different or at least get a demonstration because at this point
Kim hasn't done any denuclearization instead he's been increasing the size of
his nuclear force quite a few interesting facts you raised about
jung-hyun nuclear site there now Kim jong-un reportedly told us Chinese
President Xi Jinping that North Korea's ultimate goal of denuclearization is its
regimes security during their summit but if they're a viable way to guarantee
North Korea's regime survival well you can't guarantee the survival because his
biggest problem may be internally he may be facing
problem from hardliners internally at least that's what he's claimed in his
negotiations discussions in the past so I think you have to say we can offer
things that would help with his regime security but we can't guarantee it
because we can't guarantee all of the potential dimensions we can guarantee
that the United States will not try to undermine his his regime survival and
that has been done many many times since these denuclearization discussions began
and he didn't think that was adequate so it's not quite clear what it is exactly
he's looking for if it's not just America saying we will not undermine
your regime we will make sure that if possible from our perspective you
continue to maintain your control all right thank you so much dr. Bennett for
your insights this afternoon dr. Bennett senior defense researcher at the RAND
Corporation joining us today