North Korea's Impending Threat of Provocation: Korea Expert Sue Mi Terry

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell interviews Senior Fellow and Korea Chair at CSIS Sue Mi Terry on the threats North Korea poses to U.S. National Security. They discuss the growing advancement of North Korea’s nuclear missile program as U.S. attempts for negotiating denuclearization halt. Terry expresses concern over a potential provocation from North Korea during the Biden administration transition and recommends that President Elect Biden “send a signal to North Korea to not conduct a provocation.”

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:08.4	This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.
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0:18.2	We've been working towards having some sort of a deal with North Korea for many many years and we had deals with North Korea.
0:25.4	Just every single deal fell apart over verification.
0:28.6	Now the key question is whether priority should be verifiably capping their personal material and capping their program.
0:37.2	I think by the North Administration should be at least open to potentially having some sort of a deal, but it all depends on how North Koreans react.
0:48.6	In the immediate term, I think we need to send a signal to North Korea to not conduct a provocation,
0:55.2	do not return to the early days of Obama when President Obama came to the office and North Korea conducted a series of provocations.
1:03.4	So we need to send a message to North Koreans to buy some time.
1:07.4	Because once they conduct this provocation, we have no option to just continue sanctioning.
1:14.4	I am someone who was always for maximum pressure.
1:19.0	Then I still believe that we need to put pressure on this until there is a deal that we can live with.
1:25.8	We need North Korea to at least give us some sort of inventory of this nuclear program to show that they intend to even freeze or cap their program.
1:35.4	And they need to read to international verification.
1:38.4	Otherwise we'll be trading sanctions, concessions, and return for nothing.
1:42.8	Sumi Terry is a senior fellow on Korea at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
1:51.8	She served as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2001 to 2008.
1:57.2	And she was director for Korea, Japan, and Oceana Affairs at the National Security Council under both President George Bush and Barack Obama.
2:06.4	Sue has been on our program many times before, talking about issues related to the Korean Peninsula.
2:12.2	We just caught up with Sue to talk again about North Korea.
2:15.2	We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our sponsor.
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