Trump-Kim historic meeting: What tactics were used?

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By CGTN's World Insight

The historic Trump-Kim summit with US President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore is said to have gone above all expectations. They signed a document following the summit addressing ways to end a nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula on Tuesday.

CGTN's senior correspondent Tian Wei spoke with Jonathan Pollack, a non-resident senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He addressed what tactics both sides may use in this historic meeting.

Pollack visited the DPRK and found during his trips to the peninsula, to do business there it is not necessarily confrontational, but said, "they have what we might call a script. They have preferred an outcome they wish to see, whether it's a scenario or not, it's a different matter."

Pollack said that he could not tell us precisely what Trump's tactics are in this meeting. "Because the intention from the president of the US is something almost unparalleled in the previous practice." He said the "DPRK would be much better prepared than the United States."

But there are some indications that behind closed doors,"Trump often is not as combative as he often seems to be when he is in the public arena." Pollack said, emphasizing the test is not what happens in Singapore, but in the aftermath.

World Insight with Tian Wei is a 45-minute global affairs and debate show on CGTN. It airs weekdays at 10:15 p.m. BJT (1415GMT), with rebroadcasts at 4:15 a.m. BJT (2015GMT).