True North?
Missed Opportunities Choi Jong Kun and Joel S. Wit In “North Korea as It Is” (May/June 2026), Victor Cha recasts three decades of diplomacy as a strategic failure and claims that North Korean leaders were uniformly deceitful and “determined to build a nuclear arsenal at any cost.” But Cha’s narrative of futility is wrong. Read […]
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