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Interview with the GPI President von Schirach on US-N. Korea Summit
March 1, 2019 – Sputnik – North Korea is trying to use diplomacy as a tool while engaging world leaders to get recognized as a responsible nuclear state, GPI President Paolo von Schirach told Sputnik.
Schirach said he believed US policymakers continued to fail to understand what North Korea’s true goals were in developing and maintaining its own nuclear deterrent.
Kim’s diplomatic aims, while difficult to achieve, were not of themselves impossible or extreme ones, Schirach emphasized, given enough time and more negotiations.
“I am not surprised that the Hanoi summit failed to produce any concrete results… What all these possible roadmaps have in common is that they assume a genuine will on the part of North Korea to eventually de-nuclearize, if only in exchange for a good package of aid [and] investments,” he said. “I seriously question this premise. I am not at all convinced that North Korea has any intention to completely give up its relatively mature nuclear weapons program — under any condition.”
Read full interview on Sputnik.
