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Sidney Seiler

Sidney Seiler

Senior Adviser at CSIS Korea Chair; former U.S. National Intelligence Officer for North Korea (2020-2023) and U.S. Special Envoy for Six-Party Talks (2014-2015)

Jun 10, 2026

5:10
Mm-hmm
5:11
...
5:11
in that, uh, I...
5:13
there may have been, uh, an expression of what we would say in our statement that we, uh, previewed with the Chinese, or I doubt we gave them veto power over what we were going to say.
5:24
And by simply not commenting on it, uh, Xi Jinping can go into Pyongyang and, and deny that he sided with, uh, Donald Trump in some pressure campaign to bring the denuclearization back to the, uh, issue.
5:37
The other important thing is right now, I really don't think there's heavy lifting either side is asking the other to do.
5:44
We went through periods of, uh, Pyongyang's, uh, self-imposed isolation when the Chinese would be very cautious to, uh, avoid suggesting they might exercise some leverage with Pyongyang to bring them to the table.

7 MINS LATER

13:15
Mm-hmm.

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