With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?



Analysis With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations? Cool heads will need to prevail if military action is to be avoided Mintaro Oba May 25, 2018 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON KCNA With U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday cancelling the summit meeting, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more uncertain than it has been since the beginning of the year. Many pundits, of course, worried if the summit would fail or whether it would happen at all. In a March 9 op-ed for The New York Times, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair Victor Cha expressed concern that “while the unpredictability of a meeting between these two unconventional leaders provides unique opportunities to end the decades-old conflict Read More © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. LATEST ANALYSIS 01Likely Russian ship docks in North Korea’s Rason port for first time since May 02Trump doesn’t need a grand deal with Kim, but rather small coordinated actions 03North Korean trade with China rises 3.7% in August thanks to wig exports: data 04North Korea tensions expose Seoul’s uneasy relationship with UN Command 05North Korea’s politburo meeting hints at secret changes to senior officials 06The bureaucracy test: Signs to look for before a Trump-Kim summit 07China has reasons to like Trump’s North Korea outreach — and reasons to worry 08North Korea’s old alliance with Tanzania quietly finds new life 09North Korea has named its price for reopening UK’s embassy in Pyongyang 10Why Trump’s new counter-cybercrime model curiously leaves out North Korea

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With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?

Cool heads will need to prevail if military action is to be avoided

Mintaro Oba May 25, 2018

With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?

KCNA

With U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday cancelling the summit meeting, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more uncertain than it has been since the beginning of the year.

Many pundits, of course, worried if the summit would fail or whether it would happen at all.

In a March 9 op-ed for The New York Times, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair Victor Cha expressed concern that “while the unpredictability of a meeting between these two unconventional leaders provides unique opportunities to end the decades-old conflict

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01Likely Russian ship docks in North Korea’s Rason port for first time since May
02Trump doesn’t need a grand deal with Kim, but rather small coordinated actions
03North Korean trade with China rises 3.7% in August thanks to wig exports: data
04North Korea tensions expose Seoul’s uneasy relationship with UN Command
05North Korea’s politburo meeting hints at secret changes to senior officials
06The bureaucracy test: Signs to look for before a Trump-Kim summit
07China has reasons to like Trump’s North Korea outreach — and reasons to worry
08North Korea’s old alliance with Tanzania quietly finds new life
09North Korea has named its price for reopening UK’s embassy in Pyongyang
10Why Trump’s new counter-cybercrime model curiously leaves out North Korea

With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?

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