Eli Lake, Bloomberg: Negotiations Won't Stop North Korea From Getting a Nuke
Pyongyang has given the U.S. two options: acquiescence or war.
When North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile this week -- what its boy tyrant called a "gift to the American bastards" -- the response from the Trump administration was fairly conventional.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson correctly called it an escalation. He announced America's intention to bring the matter before the U.N. Security Council. And he assured, "We will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea."
If that sounds familiar, it's because not tolerating a nuclear North Korea has been a pillar of U.S. policy since the peninsula's first nuclear crisis in the early 1990s. Keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of this regime is an admirable goal; a government is hardly a model of restraint if its prisons are so vast they can be seen from space. And a few years ago, it might have even been an achievable goal. But in 2017, it is at best quaint and at worst delusional.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 6, 2017
Analysis: Despite test, North Korean ICBM likely years away -- Eric Talmadge, AP
North Korea’s missile program is no longer a distant threat -- Harry J Kazianis, Asia Times
The Worst Option on North Korea: Striking First -- James Stavridis, Bloomberg
How to create regime change in North Korea -- Stephen Bryen, Asia Times
Here's Why China Tolerates a Nuclear North Korea -- Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
Why China and Russia will be best frenemies forever -- Sijbren De Jong, EU Observer
Is the U.S. Flirting with World War III in Syria? -- Tim Joslyn, RCD
It’s Time to Prepare for Iran’s Political Collapse -- Ray Takeyh, Washington Post
G20 summit could mark end of the US as global leader, but what's next? -- Patrick Wintour, The Guardian
A Risk-Filled G-20 Summit for the German Chancellor -- Philipp Wittrock, Spiegel Online
The Three Seas Summit -- Ian Brzezinski & David Koranyi, Atlantic Council
Transdniestria: The Country That Doesn't Exist -- Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic
Ethnic Partition Would Spell Disaster for the Balkans -- George Vasilev, Balkan Insight
The Real Colluder With Russia Isn't Trump -- It's Germany -- Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Drawing From the Past, Putin Plans His Future -- Lauren Goodrich, Stratfor
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