Summit Hope
There seemed to be some level of hope that the summit may still take place. It was still too early to say since either party could pull out at the last moment.
“The group around Kim that are living reasonably well and benefiting from the way he’s kind of running things is relatively large,” said Scott Seaman. “That could mean you don’t want to tick it off.”
Seaman, a Korea analyst at the Eurasia Group and a consultancy in Washington shared his views on why Kim may want the summit to take place.
It was believed that he could benefit from the meeting and was truly looking forward to it.
An analyst said that he had seen a big transformation in Kim’s life.
“Kim has perfected the most dramatic makeover within a few months,” said Lee Sung-yoon. “He’s gone from pariah to statesman, from madman to gracious, well-prepared leader who knows his brief.”
Sung-yoon, a professor of Korean studies at Tufts University was clearly right about his observation.
This could be one of the reasons that had Trump and his people contemplating if to have the meeting.
Whatever the reasons both men may want to meet, it was yet to happen. The whole scenario looked like something from a movie script.
