Britain’s Ambassador to North Korea from 2015 to 2018 and who was also coordinator for the U.N. panel of experts, Alastair Morgan, and Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Mason Richey, share their expertise on the Russian and North Korean leaders' summit. - REUTERS
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00:00 I think Kim Jong-un's traveling outside the country
00:03 is a sign of opening up.
00:07 That's one context.
00:09 The other context is the whole diplomatic approach
00:14 or strategic or political approach, military approach too,
00:19 that the DPRK has taken
00:21 since the failure of the Hanoi summit.
00:25 It has become increasingly clear from DPRK statements
00:30 by Kim Jong-un that the DPRK is not prepared
00:35 to enter into a dialogue with the United States,
00:40 that it has no intention of ending its nuclear
00:44 and ballistic missile programs
00:48 and indeed intends to strengthen those
00:51 and to make them ever more credible.
00:56 - The message I think from Putin is that
00:59 he is not as isolated as the West
01:05 or the liberal rules-based order following countries
01:09 would like to think,
01:10 and that he has a deeper reserve that he can dip into
01:15 to continue carrying out the war in Ukraine.
01:18 I think the message from North Korea is that
01:23 they are, despite all of their problems
01:25 and their own difficulties with isolation economically
01:28 and otherwise, also still standing
01:32 and in some sense, arguably more powerful
01:37 than they ever have been.