Trump-Kim Summit 2.0: What to Look Out for? | The Capital Cable #141

President Donald Trump has signaled his intent to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un again, reportedly by the end of this year. In 2018, he made history when he became the first U.S. president to meet with a North Korean leader. What should we expect if he meets Kim Jong-un again, seven years later?

Can a second try at a Trump-Kim summits achieve results? Is a summit even possible? What should policymakers expect from a resumption of summitry under drastically different conditions? 

Joining Mark Lippert to discuss these issues and more are Victor Cha and Gen. Vincent Brooks. General Vincent Brooks is former Commander of United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea from 2016 to 2019, where he helped coordinate the 2018 Singapore Summit between the two leaders. 

Vincent K. Brooks is a career Army officer who retired from active duty in January 2019 as the four-star general in command of all U.S. Forces in Korea, where he concurrently commanded United Nations Command as well as the Republic of Korea – U.S. Combined Forces Command comprising over 650,000 Koreans and Americans under arms. In retirement, General Brooks is a Director of the Gary Sinise Foundation; a visiting Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Texas, with both the Clements Center for National Security and also the Strauss Center for International Security and Law; an Executive Fellow with the Institute for Defense and Business; and the President of VKB Solutions LLC.

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