| What Do They Really Want?: Obama’s North Korea
Cha, Victor D.
Washington Quarterly, October 2009, v32, #4, pp119-137
"Negotiating with North Korea is all about contradictions. What can be important one day can become unimportant the next. A position they hold stubbornly for weeks and months can suddenly disappear. But these contradictions tell us a lot about core goals that may lie beneath Pyongyang’s rhetoric and the provocative actions which culminated in a second nuclear test on May 25, 2009. Understanding these core goals, moreover, offers insights into how spectacularly unsuccessful North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been as he prepares to step do."
Victor D. Cha is the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at CSIS, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Pacific Council in Los Angeles. He was director of Asian affairs on the National Security Council from 2004—2007 and Deputy Head of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks.
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A38/05-09. Posted December 7, 2009
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