Presidents Obama and Lee offered nothing new in their public statements on North Korea during Lee’s historic state visit to Washington last month. However, the two leaders obviously spent a lot of time behind closed doors strategizing about a way to return to denuclearization diplomacy with Pyongyang. The most significant development in recent weeks was not the meetings in Geneva between the United States and the North, but the announcement of the new special envoy for North Korea, Ambassador Glyn Davies. Davies’ appointment, in conjunction with the appointment of Clifford Hart as the special envoy for the six-party talks, rounds out a new negotiating team for the United States.
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