N. Korea nuclear issue calls for new thinking
- By KIM Sangsoon
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Third, narrow down the negotiation topics. Negotiations should be made to address specific problems in exclusion of other unrelated ones. This will ease confrontations and advance all parties toward real solutions for real problems.
Fourth, parallel discussions need to be held during the talk. During the "quartet talk" among the North, South, China and the United States, parallel discussions can also be held, as with the case of the South-North dialogue and the China-US dialogue when necessary. However, the four parties should make sure that bilateral relations must not get in the way of the principal "quartet talk."
A three-step process toward a six-party talk
A three-step process calls for a brokerage of peace and development in Northeast Asia.
For the first step, China and South Korea need to promote security talks in order to expand economic integration toward security integration, similar to when the two countries signed deals to synergize China's "Belt and Road" initiative with South Korea's "Eurasia Initiative" on Oct. 31 last year.
Secondly, after the initial security talk between China and the South, a quartet talk could be launched based on the above-mentioned new thinking in order to avoid and alleviate conflicts and confrontations among the four parties.
Thirdly, after a successful quartet talk, a "4+2" model could be set up to advance overall security and common development among the six parties.
While problems in China-US relations and North-South confrontations remain unsettled, the nuclear issue, which is more complex than bilateral relations, tends to be more of a headache in the context of a six-party talk. Therefore, a change of thinking and the three-step process may offer solutions to dilemmas in Northeast Asia and broker peace and development in the region. It also coincides with China's long-standing proposition of resolving problems through dialogue.
KIM Sangsoon is a senior researcher at the Charhar Institute.
The article was translated by Guo Yiming. Its original version was published in Chinese.
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