The Obama administration has made little secret of the fact that it is preparing for what some senior officials call “a new phase of engagement” with North Korea. South Korean and Japanese officials have been given a general preview of U.S. thinking by senior State Department officials, and there have been probes through the North Korean mission at the United Nations about whether monitoring arrangements could be restored that would allow resumption of U.S. food aid to the North. This raises two questions: what does the Obama administration hope to gain from dialogue and what is it willing to pay?
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