During a panel I spoke on with a U.S. ambassador some years back, he talked a lot about how Washington might deal with a North Korea conflict, collapse, or internal regime change. But when a student asked about strategy if the current system lasts another hundred years, he had real trouble providing a coherent answer.
The truth is that while North Korea discourse has long focused on crisis management, few ever talk about what happens if things continue decades into the future.
During a panel I spoke on with a U.S. ambassador some years back, he talked a lot about how Washington might deal with a North Korea conflict, collapse, or internal regime change. But when a student asked about strategy if the current system lasts another hundred years, he had real trouble providing a coherent answer.
The truth is that while North Korea discourse has long focused on crisis management, few ever talk about what happens if things continue decades into the future.
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