International security

Waking up to the North Korean nuclear nightmare

 If you like Cold War-style thrillers and don't mind getting the bejeebers scared out of you, we recommend an article by arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis titled "North Korea is Practicing for Nuclear War." On the edge of your seat already, right?

North Korea is America's strangest adversary: isolated, paranoid, belligerent and — here's the worst part — armed to the teeth. Earlier this month the regime of Kim Jong Un simultaneously test-fired four missiles in the direction of Japan on an arc leading directly toward the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station at Iwakuni, Japan. Removing any doubt, North Korea announced that it was testing its capacity "to strike the bases of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in Japan."