Robert Gallucci Believes Pursuit of Complete North Korean Denuclearization is “Nonsense”

Here is what former nuclear negotiator Robert Gallucci has to say about North Korean denuclearization:

Robert Gallucci, former chief U.S. negotiator on the North Korean nuclear crisis, speaks during The Korea Forum 2018, Thursday. / Korea Times photo by Bae Woo-han

He noted it would not be easy work to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization (CVID), unless North Korea makes a candid declaration of its nuclear stockpile.

Gallucci said the core of the nuclear bomb that devastated Japan’s Nagasaki in 1945 was small enough to be hidden in a small “speaker box,” explaining the difficulty of reaching complete denuclearization.

He said if it was unrealistic for inspectors to find and check all the containers ― small and big, and declared and undeclared ― existing in North Korea, the pursuit of complete denuclearization would be also “nonsense.”

So rather than pursuing CVID, he said, it would be more realistic to focus on reducing the North’s nuclear capability and how to achieve this.  [Korea Times]

You can read more at the link, but this is more of the same analysis that seems intended to persuade President Trump that he should not demand complete verifiable denuclearization by North Korea in his upcoming summit.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago

“Finding all the WMDs would be haaaaard….” said Clinton’s chief negotiator who enabled the Nork Nukes.

Why is this jackanapes’ opinion valid?

Oh. Wait. Korea Times.

Nevermind.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Now commie moon starts the spin, ‘well, maybe they don’t have to give up all their nukes…’

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