A dilemma long faced by humanitarian organizations in North Korea: does the the assistance outweigh the burden of the conditions imposed?

By extending summit invitations to t Moon Jae-in and Donald Trump, North Korea has been able to move the dynamics from confrontation to dialogue.

North Korea has a history of requesting a security guarantee in return for freezing or ending its weapons program which the U.S. has typically denied.

Korea ranks last in gender wage gap, women in managerial positions, and women on company boards, and next-to-last in the labor force participation rate.

The U.S. trade deficit with Korea in goods and services declined by $7.3 billion in 2017 on a record $23.2 billion in U.S. services exports to Korea.

In 2017, the U.S. ran a massive agricultural trade surplus with Korea of $6.3 billion. It generated nearly $9.6 billion in additional economic activity.