a denmark be director of the asia program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and we thank you so much for joining us here on the program i'd like to begin but by first asking you because we have this joint statement that's light on the details the experts say do you see it as a first step toward peace or did trump get taken for a ride by the north koreans here. all that really remains to be seen there is as you said the agreement was lacking in detail in fact it included very little. in terms of new pledges from north korea in terms of denuclearization what it did was commit the two sides to a diplomatic process and it will be the fruits of that process to determine whether or not this was successful whether or not this was truly a historic meeting or whether it was just a handshake and a photo op or really does not. alter the resolve the issue about north korea's