At this AEI event in honor of North Korea Freedom Week, Ambassador Robert King, the Obama administration’s special envoy for North Korean Human Rights, remarked on the impact and meaning of recent events in North Korea.

While the recent round of six-party talks and the inter-Korean summit provide a hopeful vision for resolving the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, serious questions remain as to whether or not Pyongyang will ever dismantle its nuclear program or undertake fundamental reform. In his recent book, Red Rogue: The Persistent...