North Korea Denuclearization is Probably Unachievable , says expert

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Amid a flurry of rapidly evolving diplomatic activities aimed at reviving the summit between Washington and Pyongyang, experts contacted by VOA's Korean Service say that completely denuclearizing North Korea probably is unachievable.

"I think it is very difficult to know if these negotiations will lead to North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons," said David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector and nuclear proliferation analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security. "The problem is that North Korea entered into negotiations twice now where that was the goal but never really intended to accomplish that goal."

Last week, President Donald Trump canceled the summit in a letter addressed to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing Pyongyang's "tremendous anger" and "open hostility" toward Washington. Then North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, a longtime nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat, said in a statement carried by state media that the North was willing to sit for talks with the U.S. "at any time in any format." Trump responded that talks regarding the summit scheduled to take place in Singapore on June 12 were "going very, very well."

On Wednesday night, Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. On Thursday, they are expected to discuss final details of denuclearization talks for the summit, which is now expected to take place as anticipated in June.