“The (world) has now witnessed a new administration in Washington - purportedly cognizant of all the earlier US mistakes - make those mistakes all over again.”
“Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in - embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington's own,”
“The biggest constraint is the ... government's fear that economic opening up and reform will unleash social and political changes that will threaten political control,”
“The (world) has now witnessed a new administration in Washington - purportedly cognizant of all the earlier US mistakes - make those mistakes all over again,”