North Korea has maintained a hostile attitude towards the United States since its inception and has isolated itself from the rest of the world. The lack of communication and limited information about the country stood in the way of U.S. policymakers over the years, as they struggled to make progress on relations with the North. U.S. policymakers came to rely more and more on U.S. agencies’ intelligence and analysis of North Korea under these circumstances. The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (USIC) understanding of North Korea deepened each time the U.S. met with the North. The USIC took advantage of limited engagement as windows to study behaviors, demeanors, perceptions and biases of North Korea, and compiled lessons learned from one generation of experts to the next. Although this accumulated knowledge is valuable, a large intelligence gap remains.
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Speakers
Andrew Kim, Fellow, Korea Project
Dr. Francesca Giovannini (moderator), Executive Director, Managing the Atom Project
Dr. John Park, Director, Korea Project,
Paul Kolbe, Director, Intelligence Project