The North Korean Missile Crisis
North Korea's recent ICBM test implies a level of nuclear risk witnessed only once before: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The question is whether today’s leaders will show the same degree of strategic thinking that enabled the Kennedy administration to defuse that threat.
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NEW YORK – On January 2, then-President-elect Donald Trump, referring to North Korea’s effort to develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, assured his Twitter followers, “It won’t happen!” But it has.