Biden needs to take a new approach to ending our longest war — in Korea
Conventional thinking holds that sanctions and isolation will make North Korea give up its weapons. Wrong.
Daniel Jasper is Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Asia at the American Friends Service Committee. His role is to bring lessons learned from AFSC’s programs throughout Asia back to policymakers in Washington. His current work focuses heavily on the humanitarian, peacebuilding, and people-to-people aspects of U.S.-North Korea relations.
Daniel has ten years of experience working in public policy, advocacy, and international affairs. Prior to joining AFSC, he worked at World Learning, where he administrated the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). He has also worked for the Minnesota House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the United Nations, as well as serving as a Paul D. Coverdell Fellow for Democracy North Carolina and Peace Action – North Carolina. Daniel completed two assignments with the Peace Corps (Turkmenistan, 2008-10; St Lucia, 2013-14), where he collaborated with foreign ministries to improve local education standards.
Conventional thinking holds that sanctions and isolation will make North Korea give up its weapons. Wrong.