For two days, the burning question at the Shangri-La Dialogue was whether countries would be willing to accept a lesser outcome than a complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearisation (CVID) of North Korea.
Defence analysts and experts attending the regional security forum posed this question no less than five times to various ministers, but never got a straight answer.
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