WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Yonhap) -- In the second term, the Barack Obama administration will face a daunting task of setting a realistic goal in dealing with North Korea, working shoulder-to-shoulder with South Korea's new government, an expert here said Sunday.
"Denuclearization as a credible U.S. policy objective is dead," long-time Korea specialist Larry Niksch told Yonhap News Agency. "The test for the Obama Administration is whether it will formulate a new strategy toward North Korea to replace denuclearization and whether it could coordinate a new strategy with South Korea."
Niksch, a senior associate at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), pointed out that the outcome of South Korea's presidential elections on Dec. 19 will affect Washington's efforts to work together with Seoul in handling Pyongyang.
