Highlighting the strategic landscape in Northeast Asia, which is shifting due to the North Korean nuclear issue, His Excellency Cho Tae-yong, Special Representative (Vice Minister level), for Korean Peninsula Affairs, Republic of Korea said that North Korea must forgo nuclear weapons completely to bring about a viable solution to the problem. Mr Tae-yong was delivering a special address on ‘The Situation of the Korean Peninsula and the ROK Policy towards North Korea’ at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) on December 6, 2013.