Article snippet: Questions are swirling about what, if anything, will be accomplished when MORE meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam. Senior administration officials have done little to clear up the questions, demurring on several specifics they said were still under negotiation with Pyongyang during a call with reporters to discuss the second summit between Trump and Kim. The officials did indicate a priority for the summit is reaching an agreed definition of denuclearization, something that has thus far eluded negotiators. But outside observers say there’s little to indicate the gap has closed on that definition and are expecting at most modest gains in the effort to convince North Korea to relinquish its nuclear weapons. Further, they caution, with Trump, there’s the possibility of unexpected concessions from the United States. “If what comes out of this meeting next week are underwhelming concessions by the North Koreans, essentially, incremental and underwhelming concessions that attempt to resell the horse that they sold three times before, you know, the operative question for the summit then becomes what is the United States going to give up in return for those underwhelming concessions,” Victor Cha, Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told reporters. “I think this is where, you know, the president’s unpredictability, his impulsiveness, his inclination not to prepare for meetings could get us into trouble.” T... Link to the full article to read more