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A Nuclear North Korea Presents Opportunity for Global Leadership in a Complicated World

A Nuclear North Korea Presents Opportunity for Global Leadership in a Complicated World

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 31: People watch a television broadcast showing a file image of a North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Seoul Railway Station on May 31, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea fired what it claims to be a "space launch vehicle" southward Wednesday, but it fell into the Yellow Sea after an "abnormal" flight, the South Korean military said, in a botched launch that defied international criticism and warnings. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — This is the twentieth anniversary of the Six Party Talks, established in 2003, to resolve the nuclear issue with North Korea.  It’s an auspicious time for China, the host of the Talks, to put aside tension with the U.S. and encourage North Korea to return to negotiations. Ideally, the subject of North Korea will be discussed when President Joe Biden meets President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco later this month.

Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine - and the ongoing bloody war there - and Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 - and the ongoing war in Gaza - have diverted attention away from North Korea, although North Korea reportedly is providing Russia with artillery shells and rockets for its war in Ukraine and Hamas is reportedly using North Korean F-7 rocket-propelled grenades in its war with Israel. 

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