Jean Lee and Scott Snyder join Eunjung Cho for Washington Talk on the Voice of America. 판문점 만남을 통해 약속된 미북 실무협상 재개가 지체되고 있습니다. 북한은 미한 연합훈련을 비난하며 실무협상에 영향을 미친다고 주장했는데,북한이 이렇게 ‘시간 끌기’에 나선 이유를 분석합니다. 미국 정부가 종교자유 장관급 회의를 개최하고 트럼프 대통령은 탈북자 등 각국 피해자를 만났는데, 북한에서 ‘종교 자유’가 가능한지 살펴봅니다. 진행: 조은정 / 대담: 진 리 (Jean Lee, 윌슨센터 한국 국장), 스콧 스나이더 (Scott Snyder, 미 외교협회 미한정책 국장)
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“I can’t see Kim giving up his nuclear weapons entirely,” said Jean H. Lee, a Korea expert at the Wilson Center in Washington. “They are his ‘treasured sword’ and all that he has to give him leverage. But he is willing to barter some dismantling of his nuclear program in exchange for concessions.”
NBC News: A closer look into Trump and Kim’s relationship →
A closer look into President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s relationship after the historic meeting this weekend. We met with Jean Lee the director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center and former Pyongyang bureau chief for the Associated Press who gave us a glimpse into their relationship and what it means going forward.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jean Lee, director of the Wilson Center's Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center, about President Trump's meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.
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