A Practical Approach to North Korea for the Next US President

After three years of an erratic approach to North Korea, the Trump administration has made little progress in reducing the nuclear threat and enhancing peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. The Kim Jong Un regime not only maintains its stockpile of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, but these capabilities have grown both quantitatively and qualitatively. The next US president will have to address this grave situation. This Policy Brief examines what might work and outlines four steps on a practical path to building a new framework for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.

This article was first published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
https://thebulletin.org/2020/10/a-practical-approach-to-north-korea-for-the-next-us-president/