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However cynically packaged, mislabelled and imperfect, we will have to work with the partial deal. All realistic alternatives are much worse.

Unless the incoming Trump administration radically rethinks US policy towards the North, things are set to escalate in the peninsula

Pyongyang is capable of striking back if attacked and is likely to launch a massive artillery barrage against Seoul — a scenario that will soon see the US stuck with fighting a land war in Asia

North Korea’s leaders face a different dynamic than do China’s leaders