New Opening to North Korea?

Former President Bill Clinton’s trip to North Korea has provided a foreign policy spectacle that has everyone talking. Of course, it wasn’t supposed to be about foreign policy, it was billed as a strictly humanitarian mission to gain the release of the two American reporters, still the foreign policy implications are hard to deny. Clinton’s mission may have opened a new channel of communication with the North Korean government and forged new opportunities to resolve the long-standing nuclear crisis. In this analysis from The Council on Foreign Relations, Scott Snyder examines the implications of Clinton’s visit for U.S. relations with North Korea.