Could the U.S. and North Korea still hold a summit?
What are the ramifications of canceling the US-North Korea summit? "Trump has made clear he won't play Charlie Brown to Kim's Lucy with the football."
President Donald Trump was scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 to discuss efforts toward denuclearization and a peace plan for the region, but canceled the summit this week.
What led to the move? Could a meeting realistically be rescheduled? Can the US diplomatically negotiate denuclearization when there are clearly different approaches to what disarmament looks like? Four Stanford scholars discussed the issues:
- Michael Auslin, a fellow in contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, specializes in global risk analysis, US security and foreign policy strategy, and security and political relations in Asia. He is the author of The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region (Yale University Press, 2017).
- Siegfried Hecker is the former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research interests include plutonium science, nuclear weapons policy and international security, nuclear security (including nonproliferation and counterterrorism), and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.
- Gi-Wook Shin is a sociology professor, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and the founding director of the Korea Program.
- Kathleen Stephens is a fellow in the Korea Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. She served as the US ambassador to South Korea from 2008 to 2011.
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