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In 2009, under President Barack Obama, Washington tried diplomacy again to persuade Pyongyang to denuclearize.
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Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
The disappointing conclusion shook the public’s faith in summit diplomacy and undermined Seoul’s efforts to foster parallel processes: for denuclearizing North Korea, building a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula, and fostering inter-Korean economic cooperation.
—Chung-In Moon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2019
And there was a period in the late 1990s when the two countries were still working together to denuclearize the Soviet republics.
—Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 5 July 2023
Faced with economic hardship, Kim Jong Il avoided regime collapse by negotiating for economic aid from the U.S. and South Korea in return for promising to denuclearize—even though Pyongyang secretly kept enriching uranium and selling weapons to the Middle East.
—Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
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Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
The disappointing conclusion shook the public’s faith in summit diplomacy and undermined Seoul’s efforts to foster parallel processes: for denuclearizing North Korea, building a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula, and fostering inter-Korean economic cooperation.
—Chung-In Moon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2019
And there was a period in the late 1990s when the two countries were still working together to denuclearize the Soviet republics.
—Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 5 July 2023
Faced with economic hardship, Kim Jong Il avoided regime collapse by negotiating for economic aid from the U.S. and South Korea in return for promising to denuclearize—even though Pyongyang secretly kept enriching uranium and selling weapons to the Middle East.
—Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
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“Denuclearize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuclearize. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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