INTERVIEW
The third rendezvous between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Sunday at the Korean border, was rich in symbols: for the first time, a US president in office even briefly walked the North Korean soil. But is this meeting a simple communication or a giant step towards peace? For Pascal Dayez-Burgeon, a specialist in Korea, "this is a very great symbolic victory for Kim Kong One".
"In the idea, it's win win." For 70 years, North Korea has demanded to meet an American president on its territory, a huge symbolic victory for Kim Kong Un, the second after meeting a president in office.But now he will have to give some things to American demands, "said the former diplomat, interviewed on Europe 1.
"Now we have to move forward concretely on the issue"
But according to the specialist, the two sides will now have to get down to concrete progress on the merits of the case. For several months, negotiations have stalled between Washington, which requires that Pyongyang permanently renounce its nuclear program, while the totalitarian regime calls for the lifting of international sanctions of which it is the object. "Trump says that the file was not moving when he was not in power, but in fact, the file has not moved forward, so now we have to make concrete progress in small steps," says Pascal Dayez-Burgeon. .
"This is also the shepherd's response to the shepherdess after the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un. Americans are a little afraid that the case goes under Chinese arbitration. competition between Washington and Beijing, there is also a desire to regain control ", concluded the specialist. Since the failure of the Hanoi summit, the two sides were no longer holding formal talks and the North provoked tensions last month by firing short-range missiles for the first time since November 2017.