What It’s Like to Talk with North Korea. By JIM GERAGHTY

What It’s Like to Talk with North Korea. By JIM GERAGHTY

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/north-korea-south-korea-peace-talks/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-04-28&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

excerpt: A veteran of American negotiations with Pyongyang sees ‘our best opportunity in the past 17 years’ for a breakthrough. Friday morning brought the surprising sight of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, shaking hands and literally embracing. The two leaders announced their intent to find an agreement to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War. Suddenly, the upcoming summit meeting between President Trump and Kim seems much more likely to bear fruit, and a genuine thaw in U.S.–North Korean relations seems possible. But few regimes in the world are less predictable and less understood than the one in Pyongyang, and Kim is young, largely unknown, erratic, and ruthless.