Joel Wit

Senior Fellow at Henry L Stimpson Center in Washington DC, founder of the website 38 North and a former U.S. diplomat

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Senior Fellow at Henry L Stimpson Center in Washington DC, founder of the website 38 North and  a former U.S. diplomat

Former research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University; former coordinator for the implementation of 1994 US-North Korea Agreed Framework

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Six months after threatening nuclear warfare, “little rocket man” and the “dotard” were talking peace in Singapore. Beyond the hype, did President Trump and Kim Jong Un really mean it?

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North Korea's top nuclear negotiator is in New York today, meeting US officials on steps toward establishing diplomatic relations.  In 2002, President Bush called North Korea part of…

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