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What will North Korea demand?

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What will North Korea demand?

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Kim Tae-woo, senior fellow and vice president of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, suspects that North Korean and US diplomats, in meetings at the North’s UN Mission in New York, may already have come to terms on the North’s returning to six-party talks. The question is, what will North Korea get in return? “Bosworth can save face by getting the promise of six-party talks so his mission is not futile,” says Mr. Kim. But that’s “the maximum promise Mr. Bosworth can get.” For North Korea, he says, the potential dividends of returning to talks are much higher, including “diplomatic recognition and economic aid,” as promised in the Geneva agreement of 1994 between the US and North Korea and then in agreements reached at six-party talks in 2005 and 2007. He is not optimistic about what six-party talks will deliver, expecting instead another cycle of protracted negotiations. “It will be a repetition of what we have done for the past years,” he says. Other analysts share this view. “N

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