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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Politics
Doug Bandow, Morten Soendergaard Larsen

Can Biden Solve the North Korea Puzzle?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a welcoming ceremony before meeting then-U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 1, 2019. Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images

Five months into office, U.S. President Joe Biden has his hands full with foreign-policy crises. But there’s one conspicuously missing from the headlines: North Korea.

It’s only a matter of time before that changes, according to current and former U.S. officials and other experts. North Korea has a penchant for turning up the heat on Washington and its Asian allies through saber-rattling or provocative missile tests. Most analysts agree the next major North Korea crisis is a matter of when, not if.

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