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I'm John Donvan. The relationship between North Korea and the US is changing every day. This

debate was recorded on May 2nd, 2018. A Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump is that what

it all could come to, all of this talk of talks between the US and North Korea, with the aim

on the US side at least of getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions. If that were

actually to happen, that would be big league peace prize stuff. But is it even likely?

Where is the trust that a deal like that would require? Where are the incentives for each

side to come to the table? Does diplomacy actually have a chance here given the past, given the

personalities, given the stakes? Well, to us, that sounds like the making of a debate. So let's

have it. Yes or no to this statement. Negotiations can denuclearize North Korea. I'm John Donvan,

with a special edition of Intelligent Squared US in partnership with the Georgetown Women's Forum.

We have four superbly qualified debaters who will attack this question from opposite sides.

First, though, as a special edition, I want to welcome to the stage a journalist and best

selling author who in 2011 went undercover in North Korea posing as a missionary and as an English

teacher to the sons of North Korean elites, came out and wrote an astounding book about it. Please

welcome Suki Kim. Hi, Suki. Suki, I just gave away a little bit of your biography and your astounding

story. You started visiting North Korea back in 2002 and you made this trip where you lived for

six months basically undercover in 2011. Where did the compelling interest come from?

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