Foreign Policy’s The Cable blog warns us not to expect too much in the way of progress towards resuming the six-party talks:
Don’t expect huge progress toward a resumption of multilateral negotiations to deal with North Korea’s nuclear program, just because U.S. and North Korean officials hung out in San Diego this week.
While it’s significant on its face that State and Defense Department officials met with Ri Gun, North Korea’s nuclear negotiator as part of “track two” discussions in the context of the Northeast Asia Security Dialogue, there is little chance that real negotiations took place or that a resumption of the Six-Party Talks is in the offing, experts say.
I’d add that even if the six-party talks were to resume, don’t expect much — barring a North Korean collapse, our grandchildren will be playing this game.
I’m not sure if I got this, though:
Meanwhile, Bosworth has been making good progress repairing relationships over the issue with allies Japan and South Korea, another casualty of the Chris Hill era.
Now, a lot could be said about Chris Hill — I kind of liked him, but I know others didn’t — but regardless of what you though of his diplomacy, it seemed to me that of Bush administration figures, Chris Hill was one of the better liked by the Roh administration.
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