| Author (Corporate) | European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service |
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| Series Title | What Think Tanks Are Thinking |
| Series Details | June 2018 / July 2018 |
| Publication Date | 04/06/2018 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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Officials from the United States and North Korea worked during the spring of 2018 to pave the way for an historic summit between the leaders of the two countries. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had been scheduled to hold it in Singapore on 12 June 2018. However, Trump cancelled the summit on the 24 May 2018 in reaction to some harsh North Korean statements criticising parallels to the Libyan case. Nevertheless, both sides then renewed diplomatic efforts to organise the meeting in June 2018*. The main issue lay on the meaning the two countries attribute to the word 'denuclearisation'. Meanwhile, Pyongyang, after years of diplomatic isolation, was engaged in an unprecedented series of high-level meetings with South Korea, China and Russia. This note offered links to reports and commentaries from some major international think-tanks and research institutes on the North Korean nuclear programme. More reports on the topic can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are thinking’, published in September 2017. Compiled by: Marcin Grajewski * The summit meeting took place in Singapore on the 12 June 2018. Following the summit a further compilation of think tanks articles was published in July 2018 under the title US-North Korea summit. |
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| Source Link | http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2018/621910/EPRS_BRI(2018)621910_EN.pdf |
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| Countries / Regions | Eastern Asia, Europe |
