Korea after the Olympics: Temporary Truce or Permanent Peace?
... possibility of reducing the threat of an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula, and of an eventual reconciliation of the two countries, is now closer than ever before. Washington is not looking for compromises. The United States sees negotiations with North Korea purely as a discussion of the terms of Pyongyang’s capitulation and the surrender of its nuclear trump card. However, this process makes the denuclearization of North Korea an impossibility. In fact, it does quite the opposite, effectively ...