Senior Research Scholar Joel Wit Talks to CNBC About the US-North Korea Summit Meeting

Joel Wit, Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, recently spoke to CNBC about the scheduled talks between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. In the May 16, 2018 article “North Korea Unlikely to Withdraw from Talks with President Trump, Experts Say,” Dr. Wit told CNBC that North Korea may be attempting to heighten tension with the U.S. by threatening to withdraw from the summit meeting. “Just as how President Trump said he’d be willing to walk out of the meeting if it wasn’t a good deal, I think they are sort of doing the same thing,” he said. “I think it’s part posturing but also a reflection of some serious substantive difficulties and differences that we need to have worked out before the summit. I mean, leaders don’t just come to a meeting and negotiate with each other; everything is worked out beforehand.”