Trump-Kim summit unlikely in near future amid N. Korean demands: U.S. experts

U.S. experts Jenny Town and Ankit Panda from the Stimson Center and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace respectively, suggest that a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is unlikely in the near future. Their assessment is based on North Korea's demands for a shift in Washington's policy towards the North, particularly regarding denuclearization.

Town emphasized that the North is rejecting the notion of any denuclearization agenda, and the real question is whether the U.S. is willing to change its hostile policy towards North Korea. According to Panda, the likelihood of such a meeting is less than 50 percent.

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