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| Authors: | Morton I. Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
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May 12, 2008
Morton Abramowitz, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, and Stephen Bosworth, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, write that what North Korea wants more than anything is "political compensation:" a relationship with Washington, in which the United States would stop making threats, drop all sanctions, and start treating North Korea as a friendly country. "As Pyongyang sees it, such moves would finally allow it to join the global economic community -- key to its survival," they write. "Until then, North Korea will hold on to its nuclear weapons as an insurance policy against a U.S. attack and, more important, the threat that Washington will simply ignore North Korea and allow it to starve in the dark."
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