Stephan Haggard Optimistic on N. Korea Denuclearlization
Is North Korea closer to denuclearization?
03/12/2012
John Power,
The Korea Herald
With the latest deal between the U.S. and Kim regime ...
Is North Korea closer to denuclearization?
The start of the month saw a headline-making development in the decades-long effort to get North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons program. In exchange for 240,000 tons of U.S. food aid, North Korea agreed it would suspend nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon facility, and allow the return of the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
The response to the deal from many here and in the U.S. was favorable but tinged with caution ― unsurprising, considering the history of false dawns for North Korean denuclearization. U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton summed up the mood with her opinion that the deal was only "a modest first step in the right direction."
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Stephan Haggard is the director of the Korea-Pacific Program at IR/PS, where he specializes in the Korean economy. In 2011 Haggard published Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea with co-author Marcus Noland, with whom he also writes for the Peterson Institute for International Economics blog.
