North Korea Presents Only Bad Options

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North Korea Presents Only Bad Options

By Denny Roy
Senior Fellow, East-West Center
(Note: This commentary first appeared in The Honolulu Star-Advertiser on March 12, 2017)

Making foreign policy is often a matter of choosing the least bad from a list of bad options.  No case illustrates this principle better than America's North Korea problem.  To forestall North Korea from achieving a nuclear missile capability, there are basically six options.  All have serious downsides. http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=044cc59d69d5fff92f2ab7675&id=4be6e58228&e=6ed7a73544