Deal with North Korea very much in the making: Trump
A deal with North Korea is very much in the making, and if completed, it would be a very good one for the world, US President Donald Trump said, a day after he stunned the global community by accepting an invitation to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Experts and analysts scrambled to decipher the unexpected and surprising decision of the President. Here's more.
What do experts have to say?
The Washington Post said Trump's personal involvement in the White House's deliberations over the world's most serious and vexing security situation "has placed a President who considers himself a master dealmaker into the most fraught faceoff of his 71 years". For the New York Times, the high-level diplomatic encounter is so risky and seemingly far-fetched that some of Trump's aides believe it'll never happen.
Words of Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senator Mark R Warner, Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said diplomacy is the right path forward to deal with North Korea, but at the same time, due to Pyongyang's history of obfuscation and international defiance, the US must proceed with caution.
