A Sharper Choice on North Korea

by Mike Mullen, Sam Nunn, Adam Mount

Overview

A new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force report, A Sharper Choice on North Korea: Engaging China for a Stable Northeast Asia, finds that the United States' policy of "strategic patience" with North Korea will neither halt that country's recurring and dangerous cycle of provocation nor ensure the stability of Northeast Asia in the future. To the contrary, the Task Force warns, "If allowed to continue, current trends will predictably, progressively, and gravely threaten U.S. national security interests and those of its allies."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156701261
Publisher:	Council on Foreign Relations
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Series:	Task Force Report , #74
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	81
File size:	966 KB

About the Author

Mike Mullen is a retired U.S. Navy admiral who served as the seventeenth
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mullen, who spent four
years as chairman—the top military advisor to Presidents George W.
Bush and Barack Obama—brought bold and original thinking to the
work of strengthening the U.S. military and advocating for those who
serve. Mullen oversaw the end of the combat mission in Iraq and the
development of a new military strategy for Afghanistan, while promoting
international partnerships, new technologies, and new counterterrorism
tactics culminating in the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Sam Nunn is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (NTI). He served as a U.S. senator from Georgia for
twenty-four years (1972–96). In addition to his work with NTI, Nunn
has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished
professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia
Tech and as chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington, DC.

Adam Mount is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Previously, he was a Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council
on Foreign Relations and prior to that worked on nuclear elimination
contingencies at the RAND Corporation. Mount’s writing has been
published by Foreign Affairs, Survival, the Nonproliferation Review,
Democracy, and other outlets.