Joe Biden's "New" North Korean Policy

Region: USA in the World At the end of April 2021, the US administration finally unleashed the new concept of policy toward North Korea that the expert community had long awaited. The waiting period was, of course, accompanied by occasional statements by press secretary Jen Psaki that the process was underway, as well as analytical reports and statements by experts who wanted to steer Washington's thinking in the right direction. For example, while Yang Mu-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies, advocated confidence-building, former foreign minister Yun Byung-se compared all previous attempts to negotiate with the DPRK…