With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?



Analysis With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations? Cool heads will need to prevail if military action is to be avoided Mintaro Oba May 25, 2018 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON KCNA With U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday cancelling the summit meeting, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more uncertain than it has been since the beginning of the year. Many pundits, of course, worried if the summit would fail or whether it would happen at all. In a March 9 op-ed for The New York Times, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair Victor Cha expressed concern that “while the unpredictability of a meeting between these two unconventional leaders provides unique opportunities to end the decades-old conflict Read More © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. LATEST ANALYSIS 01How Assad’s downfall could expose secrets of North Korea-Syria military ties 02All the companies that participated in the Pyongyang Autumn Trade Fair 2024 03No Chinese firms joined North Korea’s latest trade fair dominated by Russia 04What defectors’ exam scores reveal about the quality of North Korean health care 05North Korean Il-76 cargo planes make rare flights to northeast coast 06From aid to academia: The status of foreign organizations in North Korea 07North Korea expanding rail access to airport near Wonsan mega resort: Imagery 08Assad’s fall deprives North Korea of a fellow pariah, but its focus is elsewhere

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With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?

Cool heads will need to prevail if military action is to be avoided

Mintaro Oba May 25, 2018

With the Singapore summit cancelled, what next for U.S.-North Korea relations?

KCNA

With U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday cancelling the summit meeting, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more uncertain than it has been since the beginning of the year.

Many pundits, of course, worried if the summit would fail or whether it would happen at all.

In a March 9 op-ed for The New York Times, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair Victor Cha expressed concern that “while the unpredictability of a meeting between these two unconventional leaders provides unique opportunities to end the decades-old conflict

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