US President Trump, and North Korea’s ruler Kim leave Hanoi without a joint Declaration. The main questions and answers after the end of the summit.
“We need to describe the summit as a failure,” said Eric ball, Bach, the head of the FU Berlin, the research group, “North Korea and international security,” the DW.
On the evening before the US President, Trump had asked that this Meeting “would be similar to be successful or great as the First.” In the end, no joint statement came at all, and Trump said, in his unusually bedachtem tone of voice: “Sometimes you just have to go, and that was one of those moments.”
The first signs that the two leaders had travelled with different attitudes to Hanoi, it had already given: Trump praised remember in superlatives, the “enormous”, “incredible, unlimited” economic potential of North Korea to help it unleash, while Kim is much cooler on the “misunderstandings” that had developed in the 261 days since the first meeting between the two.
Why came to be any joint statement?
“It seemed that the summit was not well prepared, or at least not well enough,” said ball Creek. The reason for this is that the channels of dialogue are very fresh, and therefore, hardly, all the Details prepare. Both States do not maintain official diplomatic relations. In the course of the meeting, Kim said he would welcome the opening of a U.S. liaison office in Pyongyang. Whether, in the absence of the summit Declaration to this precursor of a diplomatic mission, is open.
At the venue, the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, you could track the public part of the summit on 27 big screens
Specifically, an agreement failed, according to Trump North Korea’s claim that the U.S. sanctions are fully lifted. “We couldn’t do easily,” he told journalists. He was, however, optimistic that the Meeting would progress and could achieve in the future a good result. “I want to make it better thorough than fast,” said Trump.
How is it now between the U.S. and North Korea?
Another summit is not for the time being, agreed. In this respect, it is open whether and in what Format the talks will be continued. Eric ball Creek from the FU Berlin spoke of a “window of Opportunity” that had opened in the past year. “The international community can provide support, so that this window remains open,” he told DW. “The big question now is, what Lessons has the Trump-government, how to drive the process forward. It must be recognized that more flexibility is needed at the working level.”
Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump in Hanoi
The U.S. side was by the end of the summit, all the effort to paint a positive picture of relations between the two countries. “We are closer together than 36 hours ago,” said foreign Minister Mike Pompeo. He expect to see further real progress in the coming days and weeks.
Harry Kazianis, the Director of the Korean Department at the Republican-oriented Washington think-tank “Centre for the National Interest,” said trump’s decision not to make a final Declaration to sign. “There is nothing Worse, than to make a Deal, just to have something in Hand,” he told the AFP news Agency. “The challenge is that North Korea’s nuclear weapons exist already. To achieve a Deal, the changes to this threat is hardly something that would be much worse than a busted Deal.”
Ankit Panda of the “Federation of American Scientists” feared, however, that Kim could be upset about trump’s departure. “He could have no Intention of [the talks] continue,” he wrote on Twitter.
Trump assured that his personal relationship with Kim was still good. “We like us,” he said. It’ll give a “heat” in your relationship, “and I hope that it stays that way”.
Kim has confirmed, according to Trump, in Hanoi, its commitment to refrain from further missile tests. Nevertheless, the hope for a rapid denuclearization of the Korean are shrunk Peninsula with the failed summit of a piece, and thus Trumps hope in the Nobel peace prize.
What are the internal political consequences of the failed summit for Trump?
In the United States is perceived, above all, that the President return with empty hands. Many observers see the summit as a diversion, and with the Trump some of the pressure from the domestic boiler wanted to make from the beginning. Because of the investigation to Russia, connections of his campaign team, he is already in distress. While the President sat together in Hanoi with Kim, calling his former lawyer Michael Cohen him at a public hearing a “racist” and “scammers”.
While Trump was out of the house, charged Michael Cohen him in a public congressional hearing difficult
The greatest damage to the Trump led to its Popularity, however, Many citizens had no understanding for his decision, the Executive in the longest Shutdown in the history of the cripple in order to force the Congress to Finance his controversial wall on the border to Mexico. Meanwhile, Trump has to call the emergency services to the funds past the Congress, past – from the point of view of his critics, he has overstretched the already great powers of his office. Of this a foreign policy success would have been distracted.
In the United States, a Trump-statement from Hanoi provides additional Irritation: He said that to believe Kim’s assertion that he had not been in the mistreatment and death of the American student Otto warm beer involved. “He told me he knew nothing about it, and I take him at his word,” said Trump. As the warm beer was convicted in June of 2017, in a coma in the United States, and shortly afterwards died, had Trump condemned the “brutality of the North Korean regime.”
After his press conference in the Vietnamese capital city, Trump took on Air Force One on the way back. He must adjust to a hard landing in Washington.