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How Trump Can Contain Nuclear North Korea

The strategy to thwart North Korea could work similarly to the strategy that ultimately defeated Moscow.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about North Korea before a workforce and apprenticeship discussion at his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 11.
Donald Trump on North Korea

After North Korea successfully detonated what it claims was a hydrogen bomb—and as the country prepares for yet another intercontinental missile test—the Trump administration’s national security woes are intensifying. Yet even with harsh rhetoric coming from both sides, there is a semblance of a coherent strategy emerging from the U.S. and its key allies in the region. It’s one that should be familiar to anyone who lived through the Cold War: containment and deterrence.

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