Tag: North Korea

Why diplomacy is not naïve appeasement in the Korean crisis.

Kim Jong-un has said his country has reached a “final stage” in preparing to conduct its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

How Americans remember (and forget) their wars.

An optimistic perspective on a scary crisis.

Trump and his generals better be very careful before deciding to launch a pre-emptive strike.

Trump is the symptom of a much larger problem, a plutocratic government, which must be challenged by an independent movement.

If Donald Trump actually gave a damn about “beautiful little babies,” he would not be contemplating an aerial assault on North Korea.

It’s not too late to make a deal with North Korea. Ultimately, it’s what Pyongyang wants too.

Diplomacy may take time and patience, but if policymakers would put as much faith into it as they do to the military solutions that we’ve seen fail time and again, we might see some progress in easing tensions in many of the world’s hotspots, including on the Korean Peninsula.

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