The Channel A News Top Ten broadcast alerted its audience to the presentation at Stanford by Biegun on US North Korean relations on January 31. One of the moderators was Robert Carlin who is a contributing writer on 38North.org. It was revealed that Robert Carlin has been advising Biegun for months. This is remarkable really. Carlin is one of the best experts the US has on negotiations with North Korea. Andrew Kim and Siegfried Hecker were also present. Biegun said a lot of things that undercut the impression he has made in the press earlier, because as a negotiator, he has been somewhat guarded in his public remarks until now. He gave a very informative presentation that displays his skills as a negotiator, at least before a more familiar audience...

Stephen Biegun said this at Stanford during the question period after his presentation concerning the pot shots taken by the intelligence community at the administration's efforts:

Therefore, ‘what’ is the question, and what President Trump has done is directed the Secretary of State to engage diplomatically through a combination of pressure and incentives to see if we can invite North Korea to make a different set of choices. That’s the complete picture. It’s not that we’re deceived, it’s not that we don’t know what’s going on, it’s not that we don’t take the threat with the gravity that it requires. And by the way, we have enormous capacities to deter that threat as well. So if I were presenting this same information, I would say that we have the potential here for a grave threat to the United States of America, and therefore it is all the more urgent that we engage diplomatically with North Korea to see if we can change the trajectory of their policies by changing the trajectory of our own. And that’s what we’re trying to do.