Photo Credit: Uniphoto PressHow To Worry Kim Jong-il -- Jeffrey Lewis & Elbridge Colby, The Diplomat
Deterring North Korea is a tough job, but someone has to do it. A better earth penetrating nuclear weapon might help.
In the past 18 months, North Korea sank a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, and bombarded Yeonpyeong Island in South Korea. Together, these two attacks killed 50 South Koreans. Moreover, it seems like further provocations might be on the way. These brazen acts threaten the credibility of US security commitments in Northeast Asia and have led to calls in South Korea for the United States to base nuclear weapons there and in Japan for building an independent nuclear deterrent. One Japanese academic has even posed the question, ‘Did deterrence against North Korea fail in 2010?’
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My Comment: Finding an effective deterrence against North Korea .... LOL .... good luck.
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