Four Foreign Policy Lessons From the North Korea Showdown
Article/Op-Ed in New York Magazine
April 18, 2017
Heather Hurlburt wrote for New York Magazine about key takeaways from last weekend's North Korea scare:
World War III did not break out on the Korean Peninsula over the weekend. The North Korean regime did not test a nuclear weapon on a major holiday given to bellicose military displays. The Trump administration did not use the aircraft carrier group it sent to the region to launch a preemptive military strike that might set off full-scale — even nuclear — war. But the stressful episode wasn’t a total waste of adrenaline — it offers Korea watchers and Trump watchers alike a few key lessons about the predictable unpredictability underlying this extremely thorny international crisis.