A Revived Foreign Policy Agenda for the Lame Duck Moon Jae-in Administration

January 25, 2021 Topic: Security Region: Americas Blog Brand: Korea Watch Tags: South KoreaForeign PolicyMoon Jae InDiplomacyNorth Korea

A Revived Foreign Policy Agenda for the Lame Duck Moon Jae-in Administration

Moon should deemphasize the DPRK and focus on other issues. Taking risks could yield one or more diplomatic breakthroughs as important and unexpected as his forlorn push for detente with Pyongyang.

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is the author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World and co-author of The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea.

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