What Trumps the Nuclear Blackmail Card? Missile Defense
By Sue Ghosh Stricklett
June 27, 2018
Nuclear blackmail, a card often played by rogue regimes in diplomatic negotiations, is rendered ineffective by the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.
While applying the pressure of sanctions, the Trump Administration has engaged in direct talks with Kim Jong-un with the objective of complete and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula within two and a half years. This is already the third iteration of a U.S.-North Korean rapprochement with a third-generation dictator, and success has eluded us in the past two. However, missing in the current dialogue is the urgency to reach détente based on mutually assured destruction. America’s security can no longer be held hostage by nuclear blackmail.
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