Evan Osnos,New Yorker
The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea, so there is no embassy in Washington, and but for years the two countries have relied on the New York channel,an office inside North Korea's mission to the United Nations, to handle the unavoidable parts of our nonexistent relationship. The office has, or among other things,negotiated the release of prisoners and held casual talks approximately nuclear tensions. In April, I contacted the New York channel and requested permission to visit Pyongyang, and the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The New York channel consists...
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