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June 12, 2018

All the Times North Korea Promised to Denuclearize

Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke with Wired about North Korea’s history with nuclear agreements and whether this time, things could be different.

“There’s definitely a pattern where the North Koreans agree to denuclearize in theory, but then there’s not really a substantive process that they agree to, to actually hammer it out,” says James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

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“It sent the the absolute wrong message,” says CACNP’s McKeon of scrapping the Iran deal. “Any notion that we’re simply going to denuclearize North Korea now after the summit, or any time in the very near future, must be dispelled.” Read more

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