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Cha Du-hyeogn
Cha Du-hyeogn is the former secretary to President Lee Myung-bak for crisis information. He now works as a visiting research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies
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Opinion In the aftermath of the Hanoi summit, the ball is in Pyongyang’s courtWashington’s message to Pyongyang is clear: we are in no rush The second U.S.-North Korea summit, which had been expected to mark a decisive turning point in peace and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, concluded with no agreement. A wide array of possible outcomes for the meeting -- from “big deal” to a “small deal” -- had been widely predicted, but not many foresaw that the summit would end in complete breakdown. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |