Stephan Haggard on North Korea and the Tactical Divide

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🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The escalating tension between North Korea and the United States has risen to an unprecedented level. Earlier this month, Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies at UC San Diego, gave a lecture at a private function on the complicated strategic and political risks that North Korea’s missile and nuclear capabilities present. He talked about the complex relationship among North Korea’s allies and adversaries, the impact of sanctions against Pyongyang, and the past and future role of the United States in addressing North Korean aggression.

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0:29.0	There's a lot of concern about what fighting a war on the cream peninsula would look like.
0:39.0	Now that you have an adversary with nuclear weapons, that should be obvious.
0:43.0	But at the diplomatic level, a lot of this, what North Korea has been trying to do,
0:49.0	throughout its entire career, the Kim dynasty,
0:53.0	is to essentially drive wedges between the United States,
0:57.0	and analyze the Asia Pacific.
0:59.0	Because to the extent that the US is held at risk,
1:01.0	US forces are held at risk.
1:03.0	And particularly if the homeland is held at risk,
1:05.0	then the question is, is the alliance commitment of an extended deterrent to North Korea?
1:11.0	Is that credible?
1:13.0	Because the US is going to have to calculate what are the risks of actually
1:17.0	extending that deterrent through the use of US forces
1:21.0	if the US itself is vulnerable?
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