Can the First North Korean Nuclear Crisis Inform the Current Challenge?
(Presentation at The Sixth TCC-CPAFFC Forum on US-China Relations by Marion V. Creekmore, Jr.) Unlike the other panel members and most of the conference attendees, I am not an expert on China, the Korean Peninsula, or Northeast Asia. I am speaking because I accompanied former US President Jimmy Carter to North Korea in 1994 where he achieved a negotiating breakthrough that led to a peaceful resolution of the first North Korean nuclear crisis. I think there are lessons from the first North Korean nuclear crisis that could be useful in dealing with today’s challenge. Let’s review what happened....
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