REBOOTING NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY WITH NORTH KOREA AND IRAN: - From Transformational to Transactional

Korea, three summit meetings between Trump and Kim Jong-un failed to slow the growth of its The three summit meetings between Trump arsenal and left the Pyongyang regime closer to and Kim Jong-un changed the psychology of acquiring the game-changing capability to target the nuclear crisis with North Korea and pushed the U. [...] nuclear umbrella for South Korea and dismantling of its uranium enrichment program Japan, as well as the end of the bilateral security and a cessation of missile tests to the withdrawal agreement between Washington and Seoul. [...] an important, tacit shift—that the United States is interest), while preventing the collapse of the prepared to rely on deterrence to meet the North North Korean regime and the loss of a buffer state Korean nuclear threat. [...] and abide by its terms if Iran will come back into compliance with the With Iran, the Biden administration has declared that the United States is prepared to rejoin the constraints on its nuclear program JCPOA and abide by its terms if Iran will come under the agreement. [...] But the economic imperatives that brought them For example, the Iranians were once open to to the negotiating table in the first place still hold, Rebooting Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea and Iran: 5 From Transformational to Transactional and that could create political space for diplomacy.