Recording: Fallout: America's Failure to Disarm North Korea

For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea’s attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them – yet Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal endures. Join us for a conversation with Joel S. Wit, a former US State Department official, as he tells the story of the US’s failure to achieve the complete nuclear disarmament of North Korea, based on over 300 interviews with officials in Washington, Seoul and Beijing, as well as his own encounters with North Korean government officials over three decades.   

This online event surveys the history of US-North Korea nuclear negotiations and future options for dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat, the emerging nuclear arms race in northeast Asia, and the prospects for another Trump-Kim summit during the US president’s visit to China in April 2026.
   
The discussion is moderated by Jack Crawford, a Research Fellow with RUSI’s Proliferation and Nuclear Policy research group and a Q&A session is included.