Drawing a "red line" on North Korea: What's the point?



Columns Drawing a “red line” on North Korea: What’s the point? First Trump, now Moon Jae-in - but such tough talk achieves little Aidan Foster-Carter August 18, 2017 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Rodong Sinmun Are the dueling dogs of war finally done barking and snarling? Is it safe to come out now? Kim Jong Un reckons so. Just when folks in Seoul noticed he’d not been seen for a fortnight, out of his bunker he pops – to pull back from the brink over Guam. We breathe again. Though let’s face it, as NK News’ John Lee notes, Kim won that round. (In passing: Yours truly has been AWOL too from NK News, for much longer and quite other reasons. Sorry about that, dear readers. It’s good to be back, especially in © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update & Podcast Updates Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Drawing a “red line” on North Korea: What’s the point?

First Trump, now Moon Jae-in - but such tough talk achieves little

Aidan Foster-Carter August 18, 2017

Drawing a “red line” on North Korea: What’s the point?

Rodong Sinmun

Are the dueling dogs of war finally done barking and snarling? Is it safe to come out now?

Kim Jong Un reckons so. Just when folks in Seoul noticed he’d not been seen for a fortnight, out of his bunker he pops – to pull back from the brink over Guam. We breathe again. Though let’s face it, as NK News’ John Lee notes, Kim won that round.

(In passing: Yours truly has been AWOL too from NK News, for much longer and quite other reasons. Sorry about that, dear readers. It’s good to be back, especially in

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Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.

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