Building a Better North Korea Policy

We need to understand that the U.S. can’t compel other states to give up on things that they consider to be core regime and national interests.

Howard French makes a sensible call to rethink North Korea policy:

It is time to acknowledge that however desirable or even urgent seeming, no one, least of all Washington, has the ability to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Threats of force won’t achieve this nor will coalitions with neighbors, the occasional offer of carrots, app…