American Foreign Policy Group 2
Executive Summary: Since the first meeting with President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, it has been the United States ultimate goal to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. President Trump will host his second summit the end of February with North Korean Leader Kim-Jong Un in Vietnam. Holding it in Vietnam would cast a spotlight on a country that has become an economic powerhouse in Southeast Asia after emerging from poverty and isolation in the decades after the Vietnam War. According to the United States, Vietnam could be a political and economic model for North Korea to follow. North Korea has still made no commitments to allow weapons inspections or to dismantle its growing arsenal of warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The announcement about the second summit suggested that the U.S. was softening its refusal to relax sanctions against North Korea because Kim had earlier this month threatened to walk away fr...