A recent proposal sparked controversy, but it’s more feasible than it appears at first glance. The newspaper-print aphorisms regarding the North Korea question go on endlessly: “the impossible state,” “the land of bad options,” or, in the words of U.S. President Donald Trump, the land of “major, major conflict.” With the development of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the
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