US and South Korean destroyer ships travel in the western Pacific Ocean in May of 2017. (Reuters / Courtesy of the US Navy)
Tim Shorrock, The Nation: The United States and North Korea Are Edging Into Increasingly Dangerous Territory
But there is still a way to avoid war, and it begins with talks between the two sides, not escalating threats.
“There’s battle lines being drawn,” Stephen Stills sang in the 1960s about the war in Vietnam. Today those same words can be applied to the escalating confrontation between the United States and North Korea over the latter’s nuclear-weapons and missile programs.
That conflict will be front and center when President Donald Trump pays his first state visits to Japan and South Korea in November. In Japan, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—Trump’s closest friend in the region—just won a smashing reelection victory, Trump will be honored with an audience with the country’s aging emperor and his usual golf game with the hawkish Abe.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 26, 2017
Is America Losing Its Credibility with the Middle East? -- Amitai Etzioni, National Interest
It’s Too Early to Pop Champagne in Baghdad: The Micro-Politics of Territorial Control in Iraq -- Erica Gaston and Andras Derzsi-Horvath, War On The Rocks
Inside China’s secret ‘magic weapon’ for worldwide influence -- James Kynge in London, Lucy Hornby in Beijing and Jamil Anderlini in Hong Kong, Financial Times
Xi’s former associates, classmates dominate Politburo -- Jeff Pao, Asia Times
In Partnering With Nigeria’s Abusive Military, the U.S. Is Giving Boko Haram a Lifeline -- Hilary Matfess, WPR
Post-War Syria: The Next Big Crisis Between Russia and America? -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest
‘The Disruption of Fact’: How the Kremlin Leverages Disorder -- Steven L. Hall, Cipher Brief
Don't Give up on Moldova -- Andrew Foxall, National Interest
In Sunni North Africa, fears of Iran’s Shi’ite shadow -- Jonathan Laurence, Reuters
The Niger Ambush Signals Next Likely ISIS Fight -- John McLaughlin, OZY
Time to Step Back From the War on Terror -- Erik Goepner & Trevor Thrall, War on the Rocks
The world’s most powerful passport is no longer European -- Thu-Huong Ha, Quartz
Don't Be Distracted by the Trump Dossier Fuss -- Timothy L. O'Brien, Bloomberg
Why Clinton Camp's Funding of the Trump Dossier Matters -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Why Clinton Camp's Funding of the Trump Dossier Matters -- Leonid Bershidsky , Bloomberg
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