[imText1]In late September, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies held its annual conference on North Korea in Seoul, bringing expert voices from South Korea and around the world to discuss a multitude of policy issues pertaining to North Korea and the wider region.
One of the U.S.-based experts taking part in the event, L. Gordon Flake of the Mansfield Foundation subsequently met with Daily NK reporter Oh Se Hyeok to discuss a range of subjects, including international coordination on North Korea and the reality that for as long as North Korea opts to pursue nuclear weapons, there is no way for the international community to embrace the countrty’s attempts to bring about substantive economic development.
