Back in 2015, I published the second edition of Dancing with the Devil, an academic and policy study of more than a half century of US attempts to engage and negotiate with so-called rogue regimes, a moniker embraced by the Clinton administration to address those states which did not abide by the norms of diplomacy and which engaged in terrorism or nuclear proliferation.
North Korea, of course, was perhaps the first rogue regime to confront the United States.
What follows is a much abridged version of the study of US diplomacy with North Korea and how we got to where we are.
The Korean War never ended. The 1953 Armistice merely ended the most active phase of the conflict, but more than a million troops still face each other across a demilitarized zone (DMZ) less than three miles wide.
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WNU Editor: With hindsight it is easy to criticise U.S. policy when it comes to North Korea .... coulda, shoulda, etc.. But I personally never felt that it would succeed. Kim Il Sung and his son were focused on unifying the country by any means possible, negotiating with the U.S. was just a means to achieve that goal. In this context, U.S. policy never had a chance to succeed.
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