How America Can Thwart North Korea's Nuclear Threat
John DeutchGary Samore
The highest priority foreign-policy objective of the United States is permanent removal of all nuclear weapons and bomb-capable materials from North Korea. The current strategy of coercive diplomacy, combining negotiation and sanctions, has failed. North Korea resolutely maintains that the development and deployment of nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles that threaten the region and, in a short time, the United States, is the only means it has to maintain its authoritarian regime and deter possible invasion from South Korean and U.S. forces.
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