Yet policymakers who expect talks to fail nevertheless commonly advocate maintaining and increasing pressure on North Korea. North Korea has ignored Biden administration’s efforts to engage in the most basic diplomacy while pouring obloquy over both the United States and South Korea. … Prolonged diplomacy may give North Korea the time it needs to build nuclear weapons. One is that it is simply unacceptable for North Korea to have nuclear weapons, as successive U.S. administrations, including the current one, have declared. In demanding full denuclearization, successive administrations have encouraged North Korea to become a serious nuclear power.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 22, 2024 03:12 UTC