John Gee Memorial Lecture - The Korean missile crisis: why deterrence is still the best option

It is time for the US Government to admit that it has failed to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States. North Korea no longer poses a non-proliferation problem - it poses a nuclear deterrence problem. Officials in the Pentagon and the White House face a new and unprecedented challenge: they must deter North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while also preventing US President Donald Trump from bumbling into war.

In the 2017 John Gee Memorial Lecture, Professor Scott D Sagan discusses the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of the Cold War for the current crisis with North Korea.