Allies agree North Korea policy channel not ‘working group’ redux

South Korea and the United States share a clear understanding that their current consultations on North Korea policy are fundamentally different from the allies’ past working group, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said Wednesday. Concerns and criticism have mounted over the channel’s potential trajectory, as critics argue that the earlier working group — focused on sanctions compliance — was used by Washington to put the brakes on inter-Korean cooperation projects during the first Trump administra