In this month’s NK Update, Jaewon Lee, Lecturer and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of International Affairs at Seoul National University, writes on the status of the issue on engaging North Korea. In November 2021, the U.S. and China announced an unexpected joint declaration in Glasgow following a virtual summit on both issues regarding the climate and the Korean Peninsula. On November 16, South Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun and U.S. Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman discussed ways to bring North Korea back to dialogue, which included a possible declaration of the formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War. North Korea, meanwhile, has continued its development of relevant facilities, although its intention to operate them remains a question.