" 'It's getting more difficult to get the international community together on North Korea and denuclearization,' said Chun Yung-woo, a former South Korean national security adviser and chief negotiator for talks from 2003-2009 that involved six nations. 'The geopolitics is working against the goal of denuclearization.'
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According to Rachel Minyoung Lee, a fellow at the Washington-based think tank 38 North, Kim now appears to view engagement with the United States as futile and his country's interests as best guaranteed through alignment with China and Russia.
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'These are very dangerous geopolitical changes that will make denuclearization of North Korea more difficult than it already is. It is already close to impossible,' Chun said. 'The North Korean support for Russia and its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S.-China strategic competition, all of these are conducive to North Korea's [weapons] advancement and give indemnity in the way of missile tests or nuclear tests.'
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'For now, it doesn’t look like the Biden administration is paying any attention to North Korea,' Chun said. Given other issues that the administration believes are more urgent, 'it looks like President Biden has forgotten about North Korea.' "
