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In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life.

Contrary to what Terry claims, write Delury and Moon, the collapse of North Korea is a frightening prospect, and the sudden reunification of the Korean Peninsula would be disastrous. Terry replies.

In the next four years, North Korea will likely develop the ability to hit the continental United States with a nuclear missile. How can Washington stop it? Pre-emptive military strikes would end in deadly failure. Sanctions have proved a fool’s errand. Only striking a grand bargain with Pyongyang—economic development in exchange for a nuclear freeze—might work.

The biggest change that U.S. President Donald Trump has brought to North Korea policy is rhetorical - but the strategic implications may be huge. "Take Preventive War With North Korea Off the Table" is from foreignaffairs.com, published on August 22, 2017.