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Doctoral candidate Clint Work deciphers renewed North Korean offer for talks | Washington Post

March 5, 2018

Reunification Arch, Pyongyang. Photo Credit: David Stanley
Reunification Arch, Pyongyang. Photo Credit: David Stanley
Doctoral candidate Clint Work (2014 Cohort)

Doctoral candidate Clint Work (2014 Cohort)

In an article “Why North Korea will never attack the United States,” Jackson School doctoral candidate Clint Work looks to history to understand renewed North Korean eagerness to hold talks with the United States. Work suggests that the overtures conform to Pyongyang’s tried and tested tactic of shifting from provocation to engagement and back again, as part of a fundamental aim of uniting the Koreas under the Kim family.

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