Knowledge-Net for a Better World 26 April 2018   EAI Issue Briefing North Korea’s New Strategic Policy Line and the Upcoming Summits: Denuclearization and a Security Guarantee Young-Sun Ha, East Asia Institute & Seoul National University   "What is Driving North Korea's Negotiation Strategy?" The next Inter-Korean summit is due to take place on April 27, 2018, ten years and six months after the last summit back in 2007. Despite numerous attempts to resolve the issue, the North Korean nuclear problem has remained intractable. But with a series of summits scheduled over the next month, a tentative hope for progress has emerged. The mere fact that North Korea, which has long maintained its “peace treaty first, denuclearization next” approach, agreed to the summits implies that North Korea has changed its perception of the negotiations. In this article, Young-Sun Ha of the East Asia Institute focuses on the importance of an accurate analysis of North Korea’s position on two key items in the North Korean nuclear negotiation; denuclearization and a security guarantee, and discusses whether North Korea’s terms will be acceptable to South Korea and the US. According to Ha, total denuclearization of North Korea will require both a guaranteed defense capability for a denuclearized North Korea that surpasses the security provided by nuclear weapons and the preparation of a complex plan based on mutual trust that ensures North Korea’s security.    Recent Publications Column | Opportunities for Korean-German Cooperation Issue Briefing | How to Approach the Coming Inter-Korean and North Korea-US Summits, and Future Challenges for South Korea Issue Briefing | The Three Facets of Kim Jong Un’s 2018 New Year’s Speech     #909 Sampoong B/D, 158 Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul 04548, Republic of Korea Tel 82 2 2277 1683  |  Fax 82 2 2277 1684  |  Email EAI  |  Unsubscribe Copyright 2018 © EAST ASIA INSTITUTE. All Rights Reserved.