Negotiating with North Korea - Key Lessons Learned from Negotiators’ Genesis Period

It was the way I started the day every day for years on the North Korea portfolio.” Understand via Applying Tacit Knowledge • Draw on Private Sector Scenario Planning: “Because I had prior experience conducting a thorough assessment at the request of the company’s CEO of the impact of conflict on the Korean Peninsula on the company’s business operations in 2017, I had already contemplated the full. [...] The North Koreans were willing to do this on all the roadmaps except denuclearization – I remember the back and forth when we got exhausted and how we used the analogy of the train with the North Koreans. [...] I traveled to the UN and briefed the UN Security Council (UNSC) episodically on the state of the negotiations and it helped us because I would give an explanation of what we were trying to do, where the strengths and weaknesses were, where we were succeeding and failing, and I would gain enough sympathy and empathy from the UNSC that they, in turn, would tell the North Koreans that they had to sho. [...] You still have to shepherd it and watch it.” ■ Provide the Best Explanation to the Press: “At the end of the day, effectively engaging the press is what we need to do. [...] (I was out of government for the last of those.) And basically these were mapped out in four stages – the first stage was the freeze, the second was disablement, the third was dismantlement, and then the fourth was North Korea’s declaration of its nuclear inventory.