The world’s options on North Korea can be summarised as bad (strategic patience), worse (growing strategic impatience), and worst (military strikes).   On 16 April, for the first time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the world came close to the nuclear brink again as the bellicose bluster of North Korea’s unpredictable Kim Jong-un collided … Continue reading RAMESH THAKUR. Between tragedy and farce in the Korean peninsula… Continue reading »