...immediate denuclearization for significant sanctions relief in Hanoi in February. There is no sign of new incentives or threats to change Kim’s calculus. Post-Hanoi, he is also in the unprecedented...Read More
...year.”[1] Yet Washington was not alone in overreaching in Hanoi. So did Pyongyang. In the months preceding Hanoi, the two sides had begun sketching out the makings of a limited...Read More
...this pickle because in Hanoi you decided to take the misguided, deal-killing advice to go big with Kim Jong Un, instead of following your own instincts to strike a smaller,...Read More
...sought simultaneous economic and nuclear development, Pyongyang declared a shift to a “new strategic line” of “everything for the economy.”[1] However, since his disgraceful exit from the Hanoi talks, Kim...Read More