Korea: denuclearization in exchange for normalization?

The article discusses the reasons behind meeting again in Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea for the U.S. President D.Trump and Chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission Kim Jong-un just four months after the failed summit in Hanoi. The possible positions of the parties in the negotiations at the working level, which both leaders agreed to start in the near future are also analyzed. Some assessments of the prospects for the DPRK's renunciation of nuclear weapons are also offered. The attention is drawn to the difficulties that the parties will face in the implementation of any options for denuclearization.