Blowing up the de-nuke playbook: Got any better ideas?
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
Harry J. Kazianis is a Senior Editor at 19FortyFive and the President of the Rogue States Project, a bipartisan national security think tank based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest and executive editor of the National Interest.
Kazianis has also worked as a national security-focused fellow at the Potomac Foundation, the University of Nottingham, and CSIS. His work and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications across the political spectrum.
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
The chances of this widening into a much more devastating conflict demands the West explore what may be possible.
Pyongyang’s latest provocations are largely being ignored and the White House appears to have no strategy. This is folly.
Listen closely — he’s not talking about going to war but about something quite different. Is Biden listening?