Analysis: Dim Hopes for Six-Party Progress
Council on Foreign Relations
Updated: December 15, 2006
Prepared by: Carin Zissis
A commentary by Michael Breen in the Korea Times says, “The pretend objective, about nuclear weapons, may yield some pretend results,” but how the United States and China negotiate with each other will prove to be the most important aspect of the talks. China pressed North Korea to rejoin Six-Party Talks in late October. But China is likely to be satisfied with North Korea merely resuming a diplomatic process and is not expected to push for immediate results, CFR Senior Fellow Adam Segal tells Bernard Gwertzman.
Beijing and Washington need to overcome strategic differences to create a joint approach that includes a U.S. pledge not to move its troops north of the thirty-eighth parallel, write Minxin Pei and Oriana Skylar Mastro of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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