Why the US should focus less on Iran and more on North Korea nuclear threat

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Why the US should focus less on Iran and more on North Korea nuclear threat

How Washington handles adversaries like Iran, Cuba and Venezuela sends message to Pyongyang and world about its motives

Rob York October 12, 2022

Why the US should focus less on Iran and more on North Korea nuclear threat

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) and the leaders of Iran and Venezuela | Images: KCNA, Office of Preservation and Publication of the Works of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Ali Khamenei and Nicolás Maduro)

The following article is an opinion piece by Rob York, director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

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Rob York

Rob York is director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. He previously worked as a production editor for The South China Morning Post and chief editor of NK News. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Korean history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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