Ambassador Robert Gallucci Explains What Kim Jong-un Wants
|This is the same thing I have been saying for years that the North Koreans want a peace treaty in order to separate the US from the ROK. As long as the US-ROK alliance is solid Kim knows he has no chance of reunification with the ROK on his terms:
“What does Kim Jong-un want?” Cha said repeating the question. “I think he wants to … he wants a peace treaty with the United States as a nuclear weapons state. I think that’s what he wants.”
“I would add to that, that the North Koreans clearly would like to loosen, if not fracture, US alliances with Seoul and Tokyo, beginning with Seoul, certainly,” said Ambassador Robert Gallucci, the lead negotiator with North Korea in the 1990s in the Agreed Framework process.
“And they will do a lot to achieve that, and including, perhaps, enter negotiations,” Gallucci noted. [Business Insider]
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