How can we make good policy on North Korea?

To make good policy Kang said we must understand why North Korea is not collapsing as predicted, and why it won’t happen in the future. His solution to working towards a stronger relationship with North Korea is to stop the name-calling and to open trade. “It’s a very American thing. Capitalism is what makes America great,” he said.

Is North Korea a threat that needs to be solved?

He shared that North Korea is widely viewed as a threat that needs to go away, but after 70 years, not much has changed within its borders. Kang believes this is something we must adapt to. “North Korea is not a problem to be solved …

Will the US go to war with North Korea?

Kang also spoke about why it is unlikely that the US will go to war with North Korea. Contrary to different narratives that have played out in the news media, the cost of war between North Korea and the United States would be too high, said a scholar of the University of Southern California during his guest lecture.

Is military action against North Korea a good or bad idea?

Not a good one. It is generally thought that military action against North Korea would lead to very high military and civilian casualties. Finding and eliminating North Korea’s nuclear stockpile would be hard – experts suspect assets are buried deep underground.

Is food aid to North Korea helping or hurting?

Meanwhile food aid to North Korea – which relies on donations to feed its people – has fallen in recent years as tensions have risen. But these measures do not seem to be slowing down North Korea’s ability to move forward on the military front.

Can the United States end North Korea’s nuclear weapons?

But no U.S. Administration, working with regional leaders and the inter­national community, has ever arrayed all its tools and advantages simultaneously and over­whelmingly to end North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program, forcing the regime to choose between nuclear weapons and regime survival.