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After the Bomb: North Korea Isn't Our Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Anatol Lieven  and
John Hulsman
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The U.S., overstretched already, should treat Kim Jong Il as a regional crisis and let China take the lead.

The United States is bogged down in what appears to be an unwinnable war in Iraq; it is facing very unpleasant options in regard to neighboring Iran's nuclear program; senior NATO officers say that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating fast; in the former Soviet Union, Georgia and Russia are moving toward military confrontation, with the U.S. seemingly unable to restrain either; in large swaths of Latin America, new nationalist and populist movements are challenging U.S. interests.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , e8
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