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The long road to a Korean peace

Dr. Kent Calder, Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies | SAIS, posed the question “in the wake of the Singapore summit, how far have me moved along the road to a Korean Peace?” in the June 15th Kyodo News – English. Stating that “the United States may have lost some marginal leverage” by agreeing to the summit, does not mean that it cannot apply pressure again if and when necessary. However, in comparing the fates of Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Matternich, mutual financial and development-based incentives and as well as “durable structure of peace” on the humanitarian grounds of returning Japanese abductees must be considered to ensure forward movement on the road to peace.

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