Analyst says U.S. open to serious dialogue with North

This excerpt cannot be emphasized enough:

“The North Koreans can’t simply expect that somehow they’re the victims, and it’s the responsibility of South Korea and the U.S. to apologize to them and to act.”  

With Obama’s re-election, heavy focus is on how he will deal North Korea, and specifically, if Washington will propose a dialogue with Pyongyang. What the U.S. wants, according to Steinberg, is some sign that the North has understood their role in causing the last agreement to break down and reassurance that the two countries will not repeat the same pattern of behavior. 

“This [negotiating to resume dialogue] isn’t our own responsibility, to somehow beg and plead and bribe the North Koreans in to meeting their responsibilities to help solve problems which they are largely the source of,” he said.

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Analyst says U.S. open to serious dialogue with North

‘The North Koreans can’t simply expect that somehow they’re the victims.’ - James Steinberg

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Nov 15,2012

	James Steinberg

James Steinberg, former United States deputy secretary of state, said Washington is open to resuming a serious dialogue with Pyongyang but North Korea should first understand the consequences of the breakdown of the agreement made earlier this year.

“There is a lot of disappointment [in the U.S.] that we were unable to move forward with the Feb. 29 agreement,” Steinberg said, in an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo and the Korea JoongAng Daily on Tuesday in Seoul. 

“That was a great opportunity with the new leader [Kim Jong-un] and there are more explanations and speculations to why they fell apart but I would believe that the President and his team going forward would be open to going back to having a serious dialogue.”

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