If President Donald Trump genuinely intends to establish permanent peace on the Korean peninsula, then he must adopt a bold and audacious approach and offer a comprehensive package deal so enticing that Chairman Kim Jong Un could not possibly refuse.
Complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of North Korea will require that the United States secure the active participation and unyielding commitment of all four of the remaining stakeholder nations (South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia – the members of the Six-Party Talks) to effectively utilize all sticks and carrots at hand.
If President Donald Trump genuinely intends to establish permanent peace on the Korean peninsula, then he must adopt a bold and audacious approach and offer a comprehensive package deal so enticing that Chairman Kim Jong Un could not possibly refuse.
Complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of North Korea will require that the United States secure the active participation and unyielding commitment of all four of the remaining stakeholder nations (South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia – the members of the Six-Party Talks) to effectively utilize all sticks and carrots at hand.
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Dr. Chan Young Bang is president of KIMEP University, principal investigator at the DPRK Strategic Research Centre, and a former economic adviser to the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. He has published numerous articles and books on the prospects for a peaceful settlement of the North Korean nuclear conflict.