Successfully hosting the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Viet Nam, the Southeast Asian nation is among the world’s top countries with great diplomacy, according to Professor Lee Woong-hyeon from the Korean University’s Division of International Studies.

US President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong-un (Photo: VNA)

Lee, also the President of the Korean Geopolitical Research Institute, told Viet Nam News Agency’s correspondent in the Republic of Korea (RoK) that Viet Nam is capable of hosting any historic event as the country shows its warm and friendly welcome to both US President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong-un.

There were no incidents, diplomatic mistakes or protocol errors at the second meeting between the two leaders, he said, expressing his belief that many countries will look for a safe and friendly place like Viet Nam to organise their important conferences.

Regarding the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Viet Nam which ended on February 28 without an agreement, he said this was due to differences in Trump and Kim’s stances on the nuclear issue. Trump wanted complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula while Kim wanted step-by-step action with the US’s removal of economic sanctions in response.

Lee did not show a pessimistic attitude towards the future of negotiations between both sides as they are in the first step to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula.

He added that the US and the DPRK will likely discuss the upcoming summit in the second half of this year.

(Source: VNA)