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What Can be Done About North Korea?

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The Bad Idea to Acknowledge North Korea's Nuclear Weapon State

There's not a magic answer on what it comes to the North Korean problem. We're in that uncomfortable, but unavoidable sort of space where we're combining deterrence and some containment," he says. Accepting North Korea as a nuclear weapons power would send "the wrong message is sent" There are also regional proliferation risks with South Korea already talking about potentially developing their own nuclear weapons.

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