Hanoi Summit Archives - 38 North

Yoon’s Key North Korea Challenges: Pyongyang’s Increasing Hostility and Washington’s Backslide Into Strategic Patience

Won Gon Park

May 5, 2022

Commentary, Foreign Affairs

In 2018, North Korea emphasized the importance of the “powerful socialist country” discourse in becoming a “normal state” in the…

North Korea’s Signaling on Nuclear Weapons and Negotiations

Sangsoo Lee and Riccardo Villa

Dec 21, 2021

Commentary, Foreign Affairs

The US-DPRK Summit in Hanoi in 2019 ended without a deal due to disagreements over the right mix of sanctions…

Inspector O and the Lost Hope

James Church

Mar 1, 2021

Not yet spring, and still too cold to be meeting outside on the patio. Nevertheless, there sat Inspector O at…

Inspector O and the Lost Opportunity

James Church

Jul 17, 2020

I found Inspector O sitting by himself on the patio, near the steps leading down to the seashore. “Long time…