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 01North Korea reveals new vertical take-off drones amid ‘modern warfare’ push 02How long-range strikes on Russia could impact North Korean troop deployments 03How North Korean hackers and IT workers collude to cause chaos 04What pro-Trump think tanks reveal about his likely North Korea policy priorities 05Yoon bet on US to deter North Korea. Now he faces an alliance skeptic in Trump. 06All the question marks hanging over Trump’s approach to North Korea in term two 07Time almost up for North Korea’s plan to launch 3 military satellites in 2024 08Trump return rekindles prospects of North Korea talks, but Russia stands in way 09How China could benefit from North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine 10New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads

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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

01North Korea reveals new vertical take-off drones amid ‘modern warfare’ push
02How long-range strikes on Russia could impact North Korean troop deployments
03How North Korean hackers and IT workers collude to cause chaos
04What pro-Trump think tanks reveal about his likely North Korea policy priorities
05Yoon bet on US to deter North Korea. Now he faces an alliance skeptic in Trump.
06All the question marks hanging over Trump’s approach to North Korea in term two
07Time almost up for North Korea’s plan to launch 3 military satellites in 2024
08Trump return rekindles prospects of North Korea talks, but Russia stands in way
09How China could benefit from North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine
10New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads

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

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