Japan's priority should be to resolve the abduction issue with North Korea rather than support failing attempts to denuclearize the hermit state, the CIA's former division chief for Asia said Friday in Tokyo.
The chances of North Korea giving up its nuclear arms development program, its only source of strategic power, "are zero," said Art Brown, who served in the agency for 25 years and headed its operations in Asia.
The future of the six-party talks on denuclearization remains unclear, with Pyongyang reportedly ready to start reactivating its nuclear plants as early as next week.
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