| Summary/Abstract |
When the Biden administration, following a months-long
review, announced its North Korea policy this past April—
“diplomacy, as well as stern deterrence”—the news barely
registered. The question of how to deal with the nuclear-armed pariah
state, a matter never resolved but never fully escalating into an existential threat, has dogged a long succession of U.S. administrations.
The prevailing sense today, amid a pandemic and heightened greatpower tension, seems to be that Washington has bigger ¼sh to fry and
more urgent crises to focus on.
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