On June 12, Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un will sit down for a historic summit at Sentosa Island in Singapore. The summit follows a year of rapid change on the Korean Peninsula, as North Korea accelerated the development of its nuclear weapons program. Just days before the summit, Paul Haenle sat down with Ambassador Chris Hill, the Chief Negotiator for the Six Party Talks during the Bush Administration, to analyze the objectives of the United States, North Korea, China, South Korea, and other regional players heading into the summit, providing insights into the potential successes and pitfalls of the meeting.
Paul Haenle
Paul Haenle is the director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy based at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Haenle’s research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and U.S.-China relations.
Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 2004 to 2005 and assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2005 until 2009.
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Chris Hill must have Amnesia: Except that the author is Christopher Hill, the former State Department grandee who offered North Korea a cascade of concessions to freeze its nuclear program in the mid-2000s. Mr. Hill is entitled to change his mind. But the U.S. wouldn’t be in such a pickle today if he had realized a decade ago that the Kim regime will never voluntarily give up a nuclear program that he now calls “inherently aggressive.” In the years since Mr. Hill was negotiating, Pyongyang has made itself more lethal by miniaturizing its warheads and developing long-range missiles to deliver them. Hill is basically misleading the American people again. Does Chris Hill own The Hill?
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