North Korea: testing the major powers (Ron Huisken, East Asia Forum)

The 26th meeting of the North East Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a one and a half track forum whose membership mirrors the Six-Party Talks, was held in Beijing late last month. North Korea began to attend the NEACD in 2002, but failed to show up in 2014 and 2015.

Although senior officials from the US and North Korea participated in the NEACD 2016, sadly it appears that it too has passed without puncturing the near total absence of open communication with Pyongyang. This has now been the case for some seven years, four of them under North Korea’s new young leader, Kim Jong-un.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/07/12/north-korea-testing-the-major-powers/