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Dr. Patrick McEachern
How to Deal With a Nuclear North Korea:
Negotiations, Containment, or Preemption?
Dr. Patrick McEachern
How to Deal With a Nuclear North Korea:
Negotiations, Containment, or Preemption?
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The major fighting in the Korean War ended sixty-four years ago with an unstable armistice, intervals of violence, and three generations of the Kim family, each becoming more dangerous than the last. Add the progress in ballistic missiles, nuclear testing, one of the world’s largest conventional militaries, and efforts to field an array of nuclear weapons that threaten the region and the continental United States and the Korean Peninsula poses the greatest foreign policy challenge facing the administration. Why is the North Korean leader accelerating this nuclear drive and how can his bombastic threats be understood? What role is China likely to play in containing its seemingly uncontrollable ally? Where does this leave U.S. allies South Korea and Japan? What do the North Koreans really want and what is the range of options available to rein in the North Korean threat? To assess these difficult issues we welcome Dr. Patrick McEachern.
Dr. McEachern is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in residence at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is co-author of North Korea, Iran, and the Challenge to International Order (Routledge, 2017) and author of Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics (Columbia University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a new book entitled Survivor: North Korea from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong Un. His other publications can be found in the Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian Survey, Korea Yearbook, and other publications. He has been a Foreign Service Officer since 2002, last serving in Tokyo and Seoul, where he focused on the North Korean nuclear issue. He is fluent in Korean. Patrick received his PhD from Louisiana State University. |
Date: Thu, Nov 9th, 2017
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