Now that US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have finally met, the real work of denuclearising the Korean peninsula begins. Or not. There are still questions aplenty. Only time will tell whether the Singapore Summit sealed the fate of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme or was another false dawn. Writing in Foreign Policy in May 2018, Terence McNamee revisited South Africa's transition from nuclear-armed pariah to respected member of the world's non-nuclear club and especially the role of FW de Klerk, suggesting that Kim too could - for different reasons - decide that his bombs are more valuable dismantled than deployed.
This article was originally published in Foreign Policy on May 22, 2018
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