This archive report was first published on 1 July 2019.
Published on July 1, 2019, the meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, has left many questions unanswered.
Trump emerged from the hour-long meeting to say that the two leaders had agreed to restart working-level talks on North Korea's nuclear program, which has been deadlocked since the collapse of their second summit in Hanoi in February.
"Over the next two or three weeks," Trump said, teams from each side "are going to start working to see whether or not they can do something".
The North's state media was less specific, reporting that the two sides will pursue "productive dialogues" and describing the agenda as the ambiguous "denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula".
However, analysts say the DMZ meeting took the two sides little further than they were after their landmark first summit in Singapore last year, when they agreed to follow-up talks.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will "spearhead" the US team and pick its members, Trump said, despite repeated demands by Pyongyang for his removal from the process.
Trump also confirmed that the "main person" involved in the North Korean purge after the collapse of the second summit was alive, adding: "I would hope the rest are, too".
The impromptu meeting sparked fresh debate over what exactly to call the event, with some describing it as a "spontaneous summit" and others as "private talks".
With the two having met three times in just over a year, and both sides appearing to appreciate the attention, more meetings can be expected.
