North Korea's Nukes Will Only Go If Kim Gets to Stay

July 18, 2017 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: North KoreaNukesKim Jong UnTrump

North Korea's Nukes Will Only Go If Kim Gets to Stay

Keep the Kims. Ditch the nukes.

There is no guarantee that the approach proposed here will succeed, but it is clear that all other approaches that have been tried so far have failed. It is time to try something new.

Roger Cliff is a senior researcher at CNA, a nonprofit research and analysis organization. The views expressed here are those of the author alone, and do not represent the views of CNA or any of its sponsors.

Image: Flickr / Republic of Korea Armed Forces.