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  • With Summit Off, United States Needs to Think Through its North Korea Strategy

    May 24, 2018
    US President Donald J. Trump’s administration must use the opportunity presented by the president’s decision to scrap his June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to think through its strategy on North Korea, according to the Atlantic Council’s Robert A. Manning.

    “There are technical issues that we ought to explore so we know what we’re talking about when we say we want the North Koreans to take steps quickly to show that they are serious about dismantling their WMD. And if they do that, we should be prepared to do X, Y, Z,” said Manning.
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  • Trump Calls off Date with Kim Jong-un

    May 24, 2018
    US President Donald J. Trump on May 24 abruptly called off a June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The highly anticipated summit—one frequently touted by Trump himself—was to be held in Singapore.

    “I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump wrote to Kim. “Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.”
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  • Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss North Korea's Tone Shift

    May 22, 2018

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  • How Trump's Meeting with Moon Can Help Him Prepare for the Summit with Kim

    May 21, 2018
    US President Donald J. Trump must use his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to ensure that the United States and South Korea are completely aligned, with no differences that could be exploited by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in his upcoming summit with Trump.

    In this way, Trump’s May 22 meeting with Moon will serve as an important prelude to the US-North Korea summit, scheduled for June 12.
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  • Sleepless in Seoul

    May 21, 2018

    Why I’ve grown more optimistic that we have the chance to repair history’s bloodiest remaining divide.

    Jet lag can play tricks on the mind.

    Lying wide awake at just past three in the morning, some thirteen hours ahead of DC time in South Korea, I grow convinced we are within reach of the chance of the century to repair history’s bloodiest remaining divide. At the end of a week’s fact-gathering in Seoul, it’s hard to know whether this is rational thinking or nocturnal delusion.
     
    Whichever it turns out to be, a Hollywood script writer could not have framed the plot nor provided its protagonists more inventively.
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  • Oh Quoted in WBHM on Trump and Moon's Washington Meeting

    May 21, 2018

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  • Manning Quoted in The Hill on Kim Jong Un's Power Plays

    May 19, 2018

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  • How to Make Sense of Japan’s Delicate Balance Between Russia and Ukraine

    May 17, 2018
    Showing solidarity with other G7 countries following Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, Japan imposed sanctions on Russia—albeit reluctantly. The Ukraine crisis occurred amid Japan's efforts to reinvigorate Japan-Russia relations in the hope of solving the long-standing territorial dispute over the Northern territories (the Kuril Islands in Russian). Subsequently, maintaining Japan’s balance between other G7 countries and Russia became one of the main challenges for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 

    While Japan felt obliged to support the international community and to impose sanctions, the geopolitical dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region forced it to take a conciliatory approach to Russia. This delicate balance resulted in Japan’s symbolic sanctions and in different narratives promoted at home and in Ukraine.
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  • Metzl Joins Anderson Cooper 360 to Discuss North Korea

    May 17, 2018

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  • Vershbow Quoted in Voice of America on the Trump-Kim Summit

    May 17, 2018

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