Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2008

A Chance to Rein In North Korea

Nicholas Eberstadt

January 2008

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

With a newly elected South Korean president willing to join the United States in standing up to North Korea, the Bush administration now has a unique opportunity to put pressure on Kim Jong Il to abandon his country's nuclear program and desist from its human rights abuses. In this article, AEI's Nicholas Eberstadt asks whether the administration will seize the opportunity.