Why Washington Needs a New North Korea Strategy

July 9, 2014 Topic: SecurityDiplomacy Region: North KoreaUnited States

Why Washington Needs a New North Korea Strategy

Washington should engage diplomatically with the Pyongyang. Doing so might not change anything, but that would be no worse than the status quo.

 

The Obama administration should offer to talk with the North. Officially. Regularly. With no preconditions. Doing so might change nothing, but that would be no worse than the status quo.

 

 

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and a former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. He is the author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World and co-author of The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea.

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