In a previous article, I walked through what the United States might offer North Korea in their upcoming summit.
The premise was that the U.S. would try to walk a narrow and difficult path between keeping pressure on Pyongyang, while simultaneously making concessions that would signal honest intent.
I suggested that relaxing restraints on South Korea’s freedom of maneuver was a plausible way of doing this, given the close coordination now taking place between Washington and Seoul on the issue.
But the President cannot sign on to another summit document that
The premise was that the U.S. would try to walk a narrow and difficult path between keeping pressure on Pyongyang, while simultaneously making concessions that would signal honest intent.
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Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, director of the Korea-Pacific Program, and distinguished professor of political science at UC San Diego. With Marcus Noland, he is the author of "Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea" (Stanford University Press, 2017).
