Andrei Lankov, Columnist

It's Time to Talk to North Korea

The Trump Administration should seek a nuclear- and missile-testing freeze before it's too late.

January 17, 2017 at 1:13 AM UTC

Andrei Lankov is a professor of history at Kookmin University in Seoul and the author of "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia."

A submarine-launched missile.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump sounds awfully certain about one thing. After North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared on New Year's Day that his country was on the verge of testing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S., Trump condescendingly tweeted, "It won't happen!"

As a matter of fact, it will happen -- unless a Trump administration radically rethinks U.S. policy toward the North.