Robert Gallucci Talks to David Remnick About Negotiating with North Korea
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🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In a face-to-face meeting, President Obama warned his successor that America’s biggest security concern was North Korea. Since then, Pyongyang has conducted a series of ballistic missile tests, countered by a successful anti-missile test from Washington. Robert Gallucci, the chief U.S. negotiator during the last major crisis over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program, talks with David Remnick about the value of deterrence and engagement. He notes a lack of coherence in the Trump Administration’s statements on North Korea, which seesaw between overtures toward negotiation and warnings of possible war. With leaders in each country who are “known to be impulsive,” Gallucci doesn’t see an easy resolution to the crisis.
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| 0:50.7 | On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with Robert Galucci about the Trump administration's |
| 0:57.0 | North Korea policy. Galucci was the United States as chief negotiator during the North Korean |
| 1:02.5 | nuclear crisis in 1994 and helped to craft the agreed framework that limited the country's nuclear |
| 1:08.6 | capabilities. |
| 1:16.6 | Recently, I had the chance to talk to some North Korean diplomats here in New York, and I asked them, who in our country understands North Korea best? |
| 1:20.6 | The person they pointed to was Robert Galucci. |
| 1:23.6 | Galucci is a retired diplomat, a scholar, and he was America's chief negotiator during the last big crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. |
| 1:32.0 | That was in 1994, and Galucci's efforts then effectively froze their nuclear program for nearly a decade. |
| 1:38.6 | I wanted to talk to Galucci right now, more than 20 years later, because the situation with North Korea is, to say the least, |
| 1:45.0 | extremely concerning. Kim Jong-un's regime has launched a series of ballistic missile tests. |
| 1:50.9 | The Trump administration has responded with a successful anti-missile test of its own, |
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