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You are here: Home / Asia / Op-ed: Hanoi Summit: Where were the women?

March 7, 2019

Op-ed: Hanoi Summit: Where were the women?

Scoville Fellow Rachel Emond was published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists diving into the key issue of where the women were in President Trump’s and Chairman Kim’s nuclear negotiations.

Based on the pictures from the second Trump-Kim summit, it looks like the women who spent the most time in the room where the leaders met were the interpreters.

This is a far cry from previous administrations that had women running or helping to run nuclear negotiations—Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Wendy Sherman, and Rose Gottemoeller, to name a few.

No doubt, there were women present at the margins in Hanoi. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was in the room with Vietnamese officials when the Trump administration pitched arms exports from the United States to their hosts. Kim Yo-jong—Kim Jong-un’s younger sister—was spotted holding an ashtray for the North Korean leader and mostly stayed not more than a few feet from her brother throughout the summit. Other women were serving in support roles back in Washington, but that’s not the same as being at the table.

So who are the women that have been most involved in the Trump-Kim summit process so far? Read more

Posted in: Asia, Center in the News, North Korea, Press & In the News on North Korea, Press Room, United States

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