Annika Culver interview with Tom Flanigan, WFSU, an NPR affiliate, on 13 June 2018.

So much has been said by national experts about this week’s historic meeting between the leaders of America and North Korea. But Florida State University has its own expert who has spent years studying the historic and modern dynamics of Northeast Asia and the politically fractured Korean peninsula.

Annika Culver, associate professor in the FSU Department of History, believed the meeting with President Trump wasn’t only a big prestige boost for North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.