Even if nations resume the long-stalled talks on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, it “could take decades” to get the secretive communist state to give up its atomic weapons, a Chinese scholar said.
Jin Qiangyi, a professor of Korean Studies at Yanbian University, said in an op-ed published by state-run China Daily Friday that convincing North Korea to open up its economy could be the best way to denuclearize the North.
“The DPRK (North Korean) nuclear issue cannot be resolved in the short run. Resumption of the six-party talks could open new avenues for resolving the issue, but then it could take decades to achieve the denuclearization of the peninsula,” Jin said. (Yonhap News)
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