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Vietnam is currently hosting a summit between Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. 

After the first summit in Singapore, critics said it failed to produce any concrete actions when it comes to the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program. 

Expectations this time are arguably a little bit higher with both sides expected to build on their agreement toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

“The DPRK leader is hoping that by the power of his personality, he’ll be able to continue this romance with President Trump. But it’s time for the love letters to stop. And it’s time to start negotiating some specific roadmaps for the future,” Harvey Dzodin, senior fellow of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG), told CGTN’s Liu Xin.

Zhao Tong, a fellow from the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, believes the top-down negotiation approach will produce some important, positive results.

He thinks it’s important that the two leaders seem to have built some personal chemistry. However, a lack of trust has hindered further progress after the Singapore meeting. Without trust, the DPRK is unable to take the next step. He mentioned that the U.S. has long asked for a comprehensive release of the DPRK’s nuclear missiles and has been putting a lot of pressure on the DPRK to deliver real progress.