Moon gets advice on N. Korea from Gallucci
President Moon Jae-in and Robert Gallucci, former chief U.S. negotiator during the North Korean nuclear crisis in 1994, discussed North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, Monday.
Moon had a closed meeting at Cheong Wa Dae with Gallucci, who is visiting Seoul for a forum and a special lecture.
Gallucci was one of the key members who drew up the Agreed Framework between the U.S. and North Korea in October 1994 when the two countries agreed on the latter’s nuclear program freeze and gradual normalization of relations, an agreement that was broken in 2003.
Gallucci is one of the experts who stresses dialogue with Pyongyang rather than pressure, and he and Moon discussed how to resolve the tension peacefully.
In June, he and five other former U.S. government officials sent a letter to U.S. President Dona ld Trump to urge him to begin talks with North Korea.
“President Moon listened to Gallucci’s opinions about the North Korea issue,” a Cheong Wa Dae official said, without elaborating further.
Moon was also planning to meet William Perry, former secretary of defense under U.S. President Bill Clinton, but Perry canceled his trip to Korea due to personal issues, the official said.
In the 1990s he recommended a comprehensive process of engagement with North Korea, called the “Perry Process.”