"It is very important for South Korea and the international community to maintain healthy scepticism towards North Korea. As the saying goes, if it's too good to be true, it probably is," Sogang University's international relations professor Kim Jae Chun told The Straits Times.
Kookmin University's North Korea expert Andrei Lankov said it is "impossible" for North Korea to be serious about denuclearisation.
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