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A Strategy for Dealing with North Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Leon V. Sigal
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North Korea is on the verge of developing boosted energy nuclear weapons with higher yield-to-weight ratios. It is test-launching mobile ICBMs and intermediate-range missiles to deliver them. It is churning out plutonium and highly enriched uranium at a rate of six or more bombs' worth a year.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 15 , August 2017, e4
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1 For the details, Leon V. Sigal, “One Impulse for Trump to Heed,” Arms Control Today, 47, 1 (January/February 2017, pp. 14-17).

2 Baik Sungwon, “U.S. Humanitarian Aid Goes to North Korea Despite Nuclear Tensions,” VOA, January 25, 2017. The DPRK later confirmed the aid. Cf., KCNA, “U.S. Government Decides to Offer Aid to DPRK,” February 11, 2017.

3 Jonathan Cheng, “Planned Back-Channel Talks between U.S., North Korea Scuttled,” Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2017.

4 Margaret Talev and Jennifer Jacobs, “Trump Says He'd Meet with Kim under Right Circumstances,” Bloomberg News, May 1, 2017.

5 NPR, Transcript: NPR Interviews Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, April 28, 2017.

6 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, “Remarks at the U.N. Security Council Ministerial Session on DPRK,” April 28, 2017.

7 Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (New York: Crown, 2011), p. 162.

8 Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Address at the Heritage Foundation, “U.S. Policy towards Asia,” June 18, 2007.

9 For more details, “What Have Twenty-Five Years of Nuclear Diplomacy Achieved?” in Kyungok Do, Jeong-ho Roh, and Henri Feron, Pathways to a Peaceful Korean Peninsula: Denuclearization, Reconciliation and Cooperation (Seoul: Korean Institute for National Reunification and Columbia Law School Center for Korean Studies, 2016), ch. 2.

10 Yonhap, “U.S. Exhausting All Diplomatic Efforts to Resolve N.K. Nuclear Issue without Using Force: Mattis,” Korea Herald, June 16, 2017.

11 See the proposal by Morton H. Halperin, Peter Hayes, Moon Chung-in, Thomas Pickering, and Leon Sigal, Ending the North Korean Nuclear Threat by a Comprehensive Security Settlement in Northeast Asia,“ NAPSnet Policy Forum, June 28, 2017.