Capability. So i dont, i wouldnt regard any iran agreement on enrichment as a precedent although i do believe that if the p5plusone countries managed to achieve an agreement with iran this would improve prospects for a productive negotiation with the north. On the other hand fail lure to Reach Agreement between p5plusone and iran i think would further reduce the probability of effective negotiations with the dprk. But the subject of this of this panel is korea and major powers. Picking up on your cue, Ambassador Park, i will talk about north korea and major powers. Of the north korean relations with major powers clearly its relationship with china is the most important. China is the main supplier of food and fuel to north korea. It is its biggest trading partner and china has made a conscientious and persistent efforts to get north korea back on the path of denuclearization but china has been terribly frustrated in its dealings with north korea over recent years. It has been frustrated
Dialogue can contribute and not fashion to peace and prosperity in a very important region of the world. And they can also stimulate and form and other faith public debate on the risks and opportunities that policymakers in washington, seoul and beijing are dealing with. To get us started, we have a distinguished american official who was very much involved in policymaking here in washington and also in the stewardship of u. S. Relations with the republic of korea, peoples republic of china and other important nations in that region. Danny russell, whom ive had the honor of knowing and working with for many years as assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. He recently within the last couple of weeks returned from travels with president obama to china, burma and australia. He is going to provide us with an overview of u. S. Interests and policies in the region. So danny, welcome back to brookings and thanks for giving us the view from washington and the view from
Council official until we talked out about it. And that is what happened. They ran it on the council and there was some coordination. Secretary kerry was involved in terms of some of the key meetings. I do think that the example i would agree with there was a special envoy for iran. His name was bill burns. He was in the system and he was not named. All of the authority he had the undersecretary for Political Affairs and also backing him up with a huge amount of senior attention. And i think that it was that model you have to look at. I just dont think that every situation in which the u. S. Can make a difference to have that kind of involvement for senior officials. But i think that it is a really important case. But we see this and other cases. One of the wording the workings that is in the paper is about just dont do something because the conversations as you should do it. You need to look at how to do it but there is a way of dealing with those issues through the double concept tha
You can ask if youre trying to do intelligence to make better policy. On ukraine, i havent really looked hard at it. It was kind of in motion when i got there so i dont think i have a very tutored view of how well we did or didnt do it. Of course it depends a lot on what you think mr. Putins time horizon and Decision Making was like. I think well make this the last question with one wrapup question from me. Then i think youre all then, after then, invited to a reception outside, too. Joe marks from politico. Want to follow up on the Cyber Security issue that you mentioned a couple of times. You said it was one of the things you were looking at most in the long range. Im wondering how nic looks an issue like cyber where you are looking at technological change over a series of 10 or 15 years as opposed to one Nations National interest. Well me pile on to that since this is the closing question. Lets take that one, and also your expanding to and this is not entirely cyber. Its broader in
Questions in my hands but then we really run out of time. Im sorry that these questions are not going to be addressed at this session. I want to congratulate our speakers and discussers for their excellent job. Thank you very much for your participation. [ applause ] coffee break for 15 minutes. Thank you. Cspan live today been hearing a discussion about the relationship between south korea, china and the United States with experts from all three countries participating today. You can see earlier session online shortly. Also in the news today former Florida Governor jeb bush announcing plans to actively explore a campaign. We should have an update shortly. Want to let you know they are taking a short break here, 15 minutes. We will be returning for the next panel of the day at Brookings Institution. Cspan 3 live here at brooks institution. The next panel expected to start in about 10, 15 minutes will be on korea and the major powers. Also that news update, former Florida Governor jeb b