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Is it Time for a New Policy Toward North Korea - A Cipher Brief Debate

Is it Time for a New Policy Toward North Korea - A Cipher Brief Debate

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North Korea’s party Congress, held earlier this month, offered some insight into what Leader Kim Jong Un is thinking when it comes to the country’s nuclear ambitions with a Biden Administration now in office. Kim told the Eighth Congress of the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP), that no matter who takes power in the United States, North Korea’s nature and policy toward the US will never change.  

The US, under Trump, did change its approach to North Korea, offering high-level meetings that gave Kim a win in the eyes of his own people, but the negotiations failed to make progress toward the centerpiece of US policy toward North Korea.  

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