Over the past few days, I've been asked numerous times who was the "winner" of the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un . My reply: You're asking the wrong question. The summit was not a competition between the United States and North Korea to determine a victor — if it were, it would have been doomed from the start. A summit is not something to be scored like a boxing match. There is no clear-cut winner or loser, because international relations do not work in such a simplistic manner. Rather, for all its on-again, off-again drama, political pageantry, odd videos and relatively benign final document, the summit marked a potential shift in the paradigm for U.S.-North Korean relations. Let's begin by accepting that there clearly remain decades of distrust and misaligned interests between Washington and Pyongyang.