Alan Romberg quoted in Newsweek on Trump’s Response Towards North Korea

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WASHINGTON, April 7 (Yonhap) — In the run-up to this week’s first meetings with China’s leader, U.S. President Donald Trump talked repeatedly and tough about how serious the problem of North Korea has become, even calling it a “humanity problem.”

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“Expecting any big breakthrough announcements would have been a mistake. Hype is hype, but it was never in the cards that either leader would make the kind of compromises on the spot that would generate potentially significant criticism at home,” said Alan Romberg, a top expert on China and North Korea at the Stimson Center in Washington.

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