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John Delury, Associate Director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and director of the North Korea Inside Out Task Force, writes, “the symbolism around Mr. Clinton’s visit, and his direct talks with Kim Jong Il, suggests we may be on the cusp of some positive movement, at last. With wise, creative and determined follow-through, hopefully Pyongyang and Washington can make some verifiable and irreversible (if not complete) improvement in normalizing their relationship.”

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Jeff Goldstein, a State Department desk officer for North Korea from 1994 to 1996, writes, “the provision of a LWR will not be the centerpiece of an agreement, as was the case with the Agreed Framework… this time around, Pyongyang will certainly demand far more concrete concessions from the United States and its allies in those areas. Nevertheless, a LWR project might be a useful – perhaps even an essential – component of a negotiated resolution that achieves the goal of verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”

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