North Korea and the U.S.: Promise or Peril?

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Mark Barry is a doctoral candidate specializing in North Korea, who has visited North Korea and is one of the few Americans to meet President Kim Il Sung. Mr. Barry begins by explaining relations between North Korea and the United States through the North Korean perspective. Barry gives a history of relations between the two nations, concentrating on the increasing activity in talks in the early 1990s. In the question and answer period, Mr. Barry addressed issues of nuclear development and prospects for future peace talks.