Prospects of Resolving the Korean Nuclear Problem
... Korea also declared it was ready to shut down its nuclear reactor in Yanbian (the principal known North Korean nuclear facility). There is no evidence that Pyongyang has transferred its nuclear technologies to third states. In his New Year address, Kim Jong-un announced that new North Korea–U.S. relations were the principal condition for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. These relations should be founded on mutual trust and should be free of mutual demonization. This is not an easy task for both Pyongyang and Washington. A similar situation in China–U.S. and Vietnam–U.S. relations was eventually ...