Expert: US, N. Korea meeting is 'a victory for Kim Jong Un' Following the announcement that US President Donald Trump agreed to talks with his counterpart Kim Jong Un, an expert says the meeting is "absolutely a victory for Kim Jong Un". Scott Snyder, director of the program on US-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, says the meeting between Trump and Kim could "create a basis for negotiation" but warns that a failure of the two leaders to agree or simply to meet could put them back on "a track toward confrontation". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES