We would like to know that answer to see how we can counter that with an effective strategy.
A sudden regime collapse would create a highly unstable and politically intolerable situation for China, South Korea, and Japan.
I could not agree with you more.
I think that is not a bad model.
It is a nuclear weapons state. For me, the answer to that is absolutely not, and it had better be absolutely not.
Do not make it violent. Disagreement is fine.
I do not think that the status quo, and a status quo which we tolerate through strategic patience, is really a viable alternative.
If that is the case, if it is regime survival, one could also argue then advancements on human rights, particularly freedom of expression, k...
There is no nation in the world with a more egregious human rights record than North Korea.
We have got to work in Japan. We have got to work with China.
Our goals for North Korea are pretty simple. We want to stop proliferation. We wanted a denuclearized peninsula.