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 01New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads 02How North Korea-Russia ties will challenge next US president, no matter who wins 03What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won 04What to know about Kim Yong Bok, the man leading North Korean troops in Russia 05If Trump: How erratic leader’s reelection could scramble North Korea policy 06North Korea’s admission of drone incursion exposes glaring gaps in air defenses 07The war in Ukraine is transforming how Europe perceives North Korean threats 08What North Korea stands to gain by sending troops to fight in Ukraine

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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

01New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads
02How North Korea-Russia ties will challenge next US president, no matter who wins
03What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won
04What to know about Kim Yong Bok, the man leading North Korean troops in Russia
05If Trump: How erratic leader’s reelection could scramble North Korea policy
06North Korea’s admission of drone incursion exposes glaring gaps in air defenses
07The war in Ukraine is transforming how Europe perceives North Korean threats
08What North Korea stands to gain by sending troops to fight in Ukraine

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

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