A new approach to North Korea

Although the successful effort to salvage the denuclearization process with North Korea was welcome news, North Korea experts and Ploughshares Fund grantees K.A. Namkung and Leon V. Sigal say that  we need a completely new approach, one that puts a better deal on the table for both sides, in order to prevent having to repeatedly react to pressure from Pyongyang. "The new U.S. president needs to propose a comprehensive menu of sequenced actions toward a fundamentally new relationship with North Korea - political, economic and strategic. In return, Pyongyang needs to agree to satisfy international norms of behavior, starting with steps to stop exporting nuclear technology and eliminate its nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs."