Kevin Allison is a Senior Editor for Signal. Based in Washington DC, he looks at how technology is reshaping global affairs. Kevin is also a Director in the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Missouri and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to GZERO Media and Eurasia Group, Kevin was a journalist at Reuters and the Financial Times. He has lived in eight US states and has been an expat four times.
Late last night, a top North Korean foreign ministry official issued a scathing statement that cast doubt on the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, saying that a combination of US demands on nuclear disarmament, recent US-South Korean military drills, and comments from newly arrived National Security Advisor John Bolton’s had led it to reconsider attending. The North also cancelled a planned meeting with South Korea that had been set for today.
A curveball? Sure. But last-minute bluster and brinkmanship are nothing new from North Korea — it may just be returning to form after the sudden thaw that led to the historic handshake between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the DMZ last month.
No one said negotiating with most opaque, repressive regime in the world would be easy.
