North Korea - Obama Presidency Oral History Back North Korea Index / Locations Transcripts Michael Posner ...no countries in the world—maybe North Korea would be an exception. But almost ever... Jefferey DeLaurentis ...thing, or the principal issue would be North Korea , the DPRK, and we fashioned a way t... ...issue would be North Korea, the DPRK , and we fashioned a way to deal wit... ...that it was able to adopt against North Korea in 2017. The real reason for that i... Jake Sullivan ...Then in Korea, of course you had the North Korea nuclear issue playing out in livin... ...execute a real agenda where you get North Korea sanctions at the UN, you get Ira... Avril Haines ...it's hard, I think, for analysts—take a North Korea example—looking at a situation lik... ...them as much as possible. Things like North Korea where, again, you can't really mak... ...China, and I spent a lot of time on North Korea . Even though it wasn't on the fron... ...had at that time to use? For North Korea , obviously they had a nuclear program... ...cycle that occurs between Korea and North Korea . And it is not just proliferatio... ...that there are different views about North Korea . One line of thinking would be tha... ...of it's harder to put the pressure on North Korea as it was on Iran. On the other hand... ...we recognized that in the context of DPRK , the sanctions would be most effectiv... Show more... Ricardo Zúniga ...that you can also deal with issues like North Korea and Iran. That's not a loss. I thin... Michael Mullen ...with my counterpart in Israel; North Korea ; China, which was less emergent i... Michael Morell ...context of nuclear proliferation. Was North Korea on— Yes. Yes, but late. It was th... William Burns ...they were in the six-party talks with North Korea for obvious reasons. But it was a... ...to the regional problems of Iran and North Korea . And the same was true, I think, o... Mark Lippert ...or a little earlier was, obviously, the North Korea transition— Right, right. And tha... ...more hostile and provocative-looking North Korea . The Obama administration in 2012... ...deterrence, one, to send a message to North Korea , and, two, to prevent the Sout... ...national intelligence officer of North Korea , outlined in a public forum, we als... ...for a Principals Committee meeting on North Korea . I do the one briefing, and it's al... Anne-Marie Slaughter ...that the threat of China or Russia or North Korea doesn't exist. But it's both-and, an... ...to do. I need to get sanctions against North Korea . I need to mobilize coalitions agains... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Russia Russia go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Democrats Democrats