Out of the Hanoi summit’s ashes, North Korea experts propose a new strategy: Contain the threat, encourage change
By Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow March 7 at 7:13 AM TOKYO — North Korea is not about to surrender its nuclear weapons, because the regime considers them essential to its survival. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cannot be starved into submission, and sanctions will only make him more hostile and unpredictable.
Long before the latest summit between President Trump and Kim failed, a group of 14 North Korea experts from all over the world spent a year debating what to do if the reclusive regime refused to give up its nuclear weapons. President Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on Feb. 28. “The unrealistic goal of rapidly dismantling the North Korean nuclear arsenal has consumed the military, economic, and diplomatic policies of the United States and its allies,” the report says.
“The North Korea challenge is far broader than the nuclear threat,” he said. “Washington and Seoul should together be opening conversations on a much wider range of issues. With a broader agenda, we may not have come out of Hanoi with the whole North Korean arsenal, but might have had something else of considerable value.”
But Pyongyang’s proposals were not a million miles away from one of the central ideas in the FAS report: that the two sides negotiate a “threshold agreement” that establishes a minimum level of stability and prevents the unlimited expansion of North Korea’s nuclear and missile arsenals or their proliferation to other countries.
Human rights abuses should be condemned consistently and multilaterally, and culpable officials identified, with a message that advancements in human rights are essential for the regime to gain international legitimacy, and that the issue is not simply a “political tool of the United States,” the report says.
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