Weeks before North Korea’s latest nuclear test, it was
clear that the political climate surrounding North Korea policy was
ready for a big shift
away from honor-system diplomacy and
toward tougher sanctions.
This test is likely to mean a major legislative push here in
Washington — not just to punish North Korea, but to craft and enact
sanctions that attack the regime’s structural weaknesses, with the
intent of either coercing its disarmament or destroying it. For all the
tension that will prompt in the short term, it is the only plausible
non-military path to a long-term solution.
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