It is unlikely that the United States will be able to influence North Korea to denuclearize, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday, in one of the frankest senior government assessments of U.S. policy goals for the peninsula in decades.
“I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause,” said Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). “They are not going to do that…that is their ticket to survival.”
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It is unlikely that the United States will be able to influence North Korea to denuclearize, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday, in one of the frankest senior government assessments of U.S. policy goals for the peninsula in decades.
"I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause," said Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). "They are not going to do that...that is their ticket to survival."
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Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.