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Chaesung Chun (Chair, EAI National Security Research Center; Professor, Seoul National University) and Yang Gyu Kim (Executive Director, EAI) assess that while the recent U.S.-China bilateral summit during the APEC Leaders’ Week showed that strategic competition between the two countries will persist, the inauguration of a nuclear arms control dialogue marks a positive step for managing North Korean nuclear crisis. Highlighting that the core issue remains whether or not the DPRK nuclear weapons program can be adequately addressed during the U.S.-China arms control negotiation, the authors suggest that now is an essential time for South Korea to proactively counter the DPRK’s “new Cold War” strategy and reinstate the goal of North Korea’s complete denuclearization.