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South Korea’s Got Beef With America
It’s summer 2008. Tens of thousands of South Korean citizens pour into the streets of Seoul, holding demonstrations and organizing marches day and night. An overtaxed Seoul police force uses water cannons in sporadic clashes with protesters. President Lee Myungbak sees his approval ratings plummet to below 20% as his cabinet begins to tender resignation…
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North Korea: A Pointed Example of Diplomacy’s Limits
There is no doubt that the evolving crisis on the Korean Peninsula represents one of America’s greatest and most consequential foreign policy challenges ever. Given America’s history of dilemmas in the foreign policy sphere, it is a difficult title to bear, but consider the following. In the event of an armed conflict, military and civilian…
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Dr. Deterrence Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept the Bomb
For the American public, media, and a certain someone in the West Wing, the knowledge that North Korea will soon have ICBMs capable of targeting American cities is cause for panic. Each test launch and every tremor coming from North Korea leads to a flurry of angrily worded tweets and posturing from President Trump, which…
