Is North Korea really a ‘hollowed out’ state?

Sven Jurschewsky is a retired Canadian Foreign Service officer who has specialised in security and nuclear arms control. In 1994, just five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) signed the Agreed Framework, which was aiming to suspend the latter’s nuclear programme, Although the agreement eventually failed, US policy became

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6.23 Sven Jurschewsky 〜He was head of political section at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing during which he was responsible for the establishment of Canada’s diplomatic relations with the DPRK.”

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"North Korea is increasingly unlikely to collapse. It is increasingly capable of defending itself and, given its abiding fear of US aggression, it is unlikely to cede its missiles or warheads as bargaining chips."