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 01Time almost up for North Korea’s plan to launch 3 military satellites in 2024 02Trump return rekindles prospects of North Korea talks, but Russia stands in way 03How China could benefit from North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine 04New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads 05How North Korea-Russia ties will challenge next US president, no matter who wins 06What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won 07What to know about Kim Yong Bok, the man leading North Korean troops in Russia 08If Trump: How erratic leader’s reelection could scramble North Korea policy

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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?

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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

01Time almost up for North Korea’s plan to launch 3 military satellites in 2024
02Trump return rekindles prospects of North Korea talks, but Russia stands in way
03How China could benefit from North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine
04New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads
05How North Korea-Russia ties will challenge next US president, no matter who wins
06What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won
07What to know about Kim Yong Bok, the man leading North Korean troops in Russia
08If Trump: How erratic leader’s reelection could scramble North Korea policy

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

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