Fortunately, No Translators Were Present

Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, stated that the new South Korean president must be “sensitive to the needs of the (Asia-Pacific) region, in addition to thinking about North-South relations.”
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Washington expects the new Korean administration to think “about working closely with Tokyo and Washington in terms of joint approaches, in terms of what’s going on in North Korea,” he told Yonhap News Agency after meeting with Kim Geun-tae, chairman of the ruling Uri Party, at Kim’s parliament office. [link]

No  dancing was reported this time, although Kim did  read this thoughtful, productive, and innovative proposal … I believe it was from the back of a napkin bearing the logo of Korean Air Lines:

During the closed meeting with Feulner, Kim said he proposed that leaders of the two Koreas and the U.S. hold a trilateral summit and sign a peace treaty for the divided peninsula.

If only it had occurred to me that it’s the shape of that accursed  table that’s keeping these talks from getting us  anywhere.