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Article: No Policy Is Not Good Policy; If it wants to succeed, the United States will have to decide what its primary goal is for North Korea: policy change or regime change?
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- Newsweek
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- May 23, 2005
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Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.)
Does the United States government really care if North Korea becomes a nuclear power? Oh, it tells us all the terrible consequences that could flow from such a development: a nuclear Japan and South Korea; an arms race in East Asia; loose nukes easily available to Al Qaeda or any other high bidder. But is it really trying to stop this from happening? It doesn't look like that to many observers in East Asia, where I've been for the past week.
The problem is not that the United States has a flawed policy on this issue, but that it has no policy on it at all. It has, instead, two ...