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Chastise That Naughty Boy!

Mikio Ikuma, Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun, calling for a strike on North Korea:

Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy!

Tokyo, Japan—North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups. It is time to teach the ill-bred child that bad behaviors are not tolerated in the real world.

A colleague swears the original headline said “spank.” Dare to dream.

Jack Pritchard takes a different approach in “No, Don’t Blow It Up.”

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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