Why Kim Jong Un Won’t Pick Up the Phone and What to Do About It

Why Kim Jong Un Won’t Pick Up the Phone and What to Do About It

Every American administration pledges to learn from the past when devising a strategy for contending with nuclear North Korea. And yet, few portfolios are so paralyzed by path dependency and resistance to learning. But now, confronted with the inescapable prospect that the legacy approach is actually creating risk rather than reducing it, the time has come to learn and pivot.The Trump administration should sharpen the choice for North Korea, making it enticing, raising the stakes, and being prepared to back it up. In service of this, the U.S. and South Korean governments could make the bold decision to put denuclearization The post Why Kim Jong Un Won’t Pick Up the Phone and What to Do About It appeared first on War on the Rocks.