Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation think tank’s Asian Studies Center, shares his takeaways from President Donald Trump’s historic, June 11, 2018, summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, calls Trump’s concession of US-South Korea military exercises during their exchange a mistake, and discusses who’s actually driving the talks, the outlook for future US-North Korea diplomacy, the impact of strategic surprise, how China factors in and more during a wide-ranging, June 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s offices in Washington.
