What Does North Korea Want? It is hard to tell where the recent, unprecedented summitry will lead, but here are some guidelines by which to measure progress.
- Resource Type
- Proceeding
- Authors
- McEACHERN, PATRICK
- Source
- Foreign Service Journal. Oct2019, Vol. 96 Issue 8, p20-25. 6p.
- Subject
- *POLITICAL debates
*INTERNATIONAL relations
*TRADE negotiation
- Language
- ISSN
- 0146-3543
The article discusses that the U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un held three unprecedented summits in Singapore in June 2018, in Hanoi in February 2019, and in Panmunjom along the DMZ in June 2019. It mentions the summits sparked a lively debate in the foreign affairs community over the assumed content of the conversations and wisdom of engaging the North Korean leader; and also mentions that diplomats will appreciate the importance of sequencing in a negotiation.