New policy, same as the old? Making sense of "strategic accountability"



Analysis New policy, same as the old? Making sense of “strategic accountability” Washington's DPRK approach has had to keep up with the President's often brash style Jonathan R. Corrado August 16, 2017 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Boeing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the U.S. is updating its policy towards North Korea in a Sunday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. The new strategy aims to apply firm, “diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.” This may sound familiar. Tillerson and Mattis explain that they are replacing the “failed policy of strategic patience” carried out by the Obama administration, having declared strategic patience dead months ago. In a practical sense, the policy has been dead Read More © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. LATEST ANALYSIS 01How Trump’s return could transform North Korea’s quiet ties with Thailand 02How Assad’s downfall could expose secrets of North Korea-Syria military ties 03All the companies that participated in the Pyongyang Autumn Trade Fair 2024 04No Chinese firms joined North Korea’s latest trade fair dominated by Russia 05What defectors’ exam scores reveal about the quality of North Korean health care 06North Korean Il-76 cargo planes make rare flights to northeast coast 07From aid to academia: The status of foreign organizations in North Korea 08North Korea expanding rail access to airport near Wonsan mega resort: Imagery

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New policy, same as the old? Making sense of “strategic accountability”

Washington's DPRK approach has had to keep up with the President's often brash style

Jonathan R. Corrado August 16, 2017

New policy, same as the old? Making sense of “strategic accountability”

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the U.S. is updating its policy towards North Korea in a Sunday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. The new strategy aims to apply firm, “diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.”

This may sound familiar.

Tillerson and Mattis explain that they are replacing the “failed policy of strategic patience” carried out by the Obama administration, having declared strategic patience dead months ago.

In a practical sense, the policy has been dead

01How Trump’s return could transform North Korea’s quiet ties with Thailand
02How Assad’s downfall could expose secrets of North Korea-Syria military ties
03All the companies that participated in the Pyongyang Autumn Trade Fair 2024
04No Chinese firms joined North Korea’s latest trade fair dominated by Russia
05What defectors’ exam scores reveal about the quality of North Korean health care
06North Korean Il-76 cargo planes make rare flights to northeast coast
07From aid to academia: The status of foreign organizations in North Korea
08North Korea expanding rail access to airport near Wonsan mega resort: Imagery

New policy, same as the old? Making sense of “strategic accountability”

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