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James Holmes, National Interest: Can America Live with a Nuclear North Korea?
Question: Can America live with an atomic North Korea, and could any presidential administration openly admit it can? The answer: Yes it can, and no it couldn’t.
A friend asks: can America live with an atomic North Korea, and could any presidential administration openly admit it can? Yes it can, and no it couldn’t. The Trump administration and its successors can live with a North Korean doomsday arsenal because living with it represents the least bad option at hand. Military action is the other apparent alternative to the administration’s “ maximum pressure ” strategy of stifling the North into compliance through diplomacy and UN-approved economic sanctions . Yet the hazards, costs, and sheer uncertainty of war abound. Few presidents would embrace armed force barring an unambiguous and egregious provocation from Kim Jong-Un & Co.
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WNU editor: The focus should not only be on America living (or not living) with a nuclear North Korea .... the focus should also be on South Korea/Japan/etc., and can they live with a North Korea. My answer is no.
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Yes. No. Yes.
"Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!"
2:56 AM - 13 Jun 2018
North Korea is at no illusion that it could fight a modern war, it would be under Naval bombardment within days. But a nuclear option allows for any aggression to be meet with force which NK currently has invested on thousands of troops stationed on its boarding manning artillery.
North Korea was a tributary state to China since the Ming Dynasty in 1368.
North Korea is nuclear IFF China is nuclear.
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/china/haxchina.html
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