by Sabrin Kassam

The lack of a U.S. embassy in North Korea is a barrier to diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington DC,  said a retired British diplomat who represented the UK in the DPRK in 2002.  Dr. James Hoare,the UK’s former Charge D’Affaires to Pyongyang and a current Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, was speaking last week at the at the Korean Economic and Political Forum in London.

“You may not like people, you may even hate them, but if you don’t talk to them and you don’t deal with them, you don’t get through to them”.

Describing previous U.S. – DPRK