North Korea: the sting in the tail
The North Korean regime is vicious, but it is not crazy. A reasonably stable cold peace has prevailed in the peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953, guaranteed since the first North Korean nuclear test in 2006 by mutual nuclear deterrence between the U.S. and North Korea. There’s no urgent need to ‘fix it’ or ‘shore it up’ now.
LONDON, U.K.—“They want to have a deterrence system that is like a scorpion's tail,” said Prof. Kim Dong Yup, a former South Korean naval commander. “North Korea's main purpose is not to attack but to defend themselves.” They want a “diversified deterrent capability,” and who could bla...
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