Selig Harrison
Selig Harrison
Selig Seidenman Harrisonis a scholar, journalist, and author who specializes in South Asia and East Asia. He is the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has written five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia. His latest book, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, won the 2002 award of the Association of American...
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I think he'll be smoking out what the first steps of a denuclearization process could be,
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The United States hopes that it can use the four-power talks to bring about a relaxation of the military tensions in the Korean peninsula.
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It's very valuable to the State Department to have what are called second track contacts with North Korea because they are more frank, and they're not burdened by the official process.
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It's a significant visit. The North Koreans trust Richardson, as someone who has shown them in the past, as part of a Democratic administration which was dealing with North Korea ... that he hears them and understands what they're trying to get across.
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They think China, the U.S. and South Korea are going to gang up on them.
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If the U.S. is willing to offer sufficiently attractive inducements ... I don't think that North Korea will hold up future progress in order to get a commitment for a reactor right away.