US-North Korea relations: could a Trump-Kim summit be on the cards again?

Alex Wong, who the US president-elect named as his deputy national security adviser on November 22, “helped negotiate my summit with North Korean leader Kim,” Trump said in a statement announcing the nomination.

Jonathan Corrado, director of policy at The Korea Society in New York, said Wong’s close ties to Trump and his negotiation expertise suggest the incoming administration may be ready to re-engage with North Korea.

But he cautioned that the Kim regime’s long-standing reluctance “to make meaningful compromises has always been the missing piece in the equation” throughout more than three decades of denuclearisation diplomacy.