Taking North Korea Seriously (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

We are living in dangerous and uncertain times. The United States is engaged in a bizarre and highly polarized presidential election. Its relationship with an increasingly revisionist Russia is undergoing what is essentially a “re-set” in reverse, while Russia’s revisionism is also putting pressure on a Europe already plagued by uncertainty in the wake of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union. Meanwhile, the Middle East is imploding, with wars in Syria and Yemen fueling a large-scale refugee crisis.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-cooperation-korean-nuclear-threat-by-carl-bildt-2016-10