Will the US and China Strike North Korea Jointly?

When the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, millions around the world supposed that the threat of world war—and in particular nuclear war—was forever behind us. Developments over the last few years, however, have proven that this hope was extremely premature. In fact, it could be argued that we are living in the most dangerous time in human history, worse even than the days when the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to plunge the world into nuclear hell. The critical players and potential flashpoints are more numerous today than in that bygone world, and, at least here in the …read more