North Korea - Obama Presidency Oral History Back North Korea Index / Locations Transcripts Jeffrey Bader ...and Australia; strong US economy; get North Korea to denuclearize; strong US presence i... ...overruled, made up his mind. On Korea, North Korea policy, I wouldn't say that there wer... ...that we weren't going to get a deal on North Korea in any case. And so it certainly wasn'... ...most of them during my time were on North Korea —there was no discussion of domesti... ...was, we have China over the border with North Korea there, and we are more and mor... ...we had in mind primarily was Iran and North Korea , although there are others a... ...discussion, Korea is South Korea—even North Korea [laughs] has some of the sam... ...Korea experts who say, Well, once North Korea threat is gone, South Korea doesn'... ...in the administration trying to get North Korea to denuclearize. If I understan... ...aims. One was to change the pattern of North Korea –US interaction, which from the U... ...initiate some kind of denuclearizing of North Korea . My first question is, do you know i... ...My first question is, do you know if North Korea sees its history with the US in term... ...by that willingness. In the case of North Korea , that willingness was there, but th... ...we were not going to get anywhere in North Korea under any circumstances I coul... ...know we're not going to get a deal with North Korea on denuclearization. It's not going t... ...the US and Japan and South Korea on the North Korea issue. That's kind of inevitable. The... ...our planning, our consultations on North Korea had to reinforce those relationship... ...in were not the grand bargain with North Korea . They were, How do we fashion a... ...of getting a nuclear deal and not with North Korea ? I kind of have a sense that you... ...trade and investment record compared to North Korea , North Korea, frankly, may as well b... ...record compared to North Korea, North Korea , frankly, may as well be on Mars i... ...You talk to people who have been to North Korea about attitudes towards China. They ar... ...having to do partly with the fact that North Korea is in China's backyard; so the U... ...so the US couldn't be as tough with North Korea as with Iran, because of that, and als... ...Iran, because of that, and also that North Korea already has the bomb, and Iran did not... ...a unilateral military strike against North Korea on China's border is, I think, ... ...plans for a preemptive strike against North Korea 's ballistic missile program. And h... ...calling for a preemptive strike on North Korea 's ballistic missiles on the ground... ...about a so-called bloody nose of North Korea , some kind of an action, presumabl... ...process worked. Now, in the case of North Korea , we had the six-party talks, whic... ...Russia, China, US, South Korea, Japan, North Korea . It's the right grouping. But if yo... ...had a clue what was going on in North Korea . None of them had a serious presenc... ...None of them had a serious presence in North Korea . North Korea is impenetrable. I mean... ...had a serious presence in North Korea. North Korea is impenetrable. I mean, the Chines... ...and the South Koreans knew more about North Korea than anyone else, but it was very muc... ...of come out of—thinking about China and North Korea and reading your book, in terms o... ...and reading your book, in terms of North Korea , I was struck by your saying that th... ...was sure that it communicated to North Korea that the usual pattern of interactio... ...but the administration wasn't sure that North Korea would comply. I wondered if you thin... ...impossible as small, weak states like North Korea can take on outsized importance. So yo... ...way of framing it. I think that the North Korea and Iran nuclear programs, in the firs... ...On the political side it was mostly North Korea and Iran, and on the economic side i... ...or they changed their position on North Korea , they tweaked it this way, whic... Show more... Henry Paulson ...and the president were dealing with North Korea on denuclearization and with China. ... Frank Rose ...Alaska and Hawaii against threats from North Korea and Iran. I was also the lea... ...long-range missiles from countries like North Korea , Iran—that could ‘upset' strategi... ...threat from rogue states like Iran and North Korea , but at the same time maintaining ... ...ballistic missiles—China, North Korea , India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq. Thos... Victoria Nuland ...with regard to Iran and Cuba and North Korea —countries that had been implacabl... Ta-Nehisi Coates ...ask him about relations—you know, about North Korea 's nuclear weapons program, ask hi... Gary Pruitt ...involved in this. The head of state of North Korea mentioned it to me. This was not Ki... ...Bureau [General Political Bureau] in North Korea . [Dmitry] Peskov, the head of media i... ...questions. I read that you visited North Korea for four days in 2013. AP had set up ... ...What did you see on that visit to North Korea , in terms of the bureau's ability t... ...the media? Yes, so AP has a bureau in North Korea , and this is consistent with how A... ...bureau in Havana and Tehran, Pyongyang, North Korea . AP had a bureau in Berlin when th... ...throughout the Cold War. In the case of North Korea , AP had established a bureau. We mad... ...in any way. What happens in North Korea is they don't censor us or review wha... ...Korean government restricts access—the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea... ...can tell you, in my second visit to North Korea , I had a very difficult meeting wit... ...met with the British ambassador to the DPRK . The US doesn't have an ambassador. ... ...ambassador. He told me that my trip to North Korea was being covered more extensively tha... ...period, I went to Pyongyang, North Korea , and Hanoi, Moscow, Havana, an... ...the best face of what they can in the DPRK . I went to a concert there where the... ...the crowd. I walked out. I sat next to DPRK military. I walked out. I saw one o... ...accountable. You see that in North Korea . Thank you for talking about that. ... ...on the press. Given those two cases, North Korea and Myanmar, I'm wondering if you had ... Show more... Michael Daniel ...between Russian and China and Iran. North Korea is a little bit different, becaus... Richard Nephew ...basically these sanctions. We had some North Korea ones. They weren't going to be ... ...have somebody who was doing CT and North Korea , and those sorts of things. That mad... ...out of what's going on with China and North Korea . We're trying to put pressure on al... ...by the way, but also has got its own North Korea problems that are attached to that... Ernest Moniz ...represented the Agreed Framework with North Korea in the '90s,” which left so much ope... 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