North Korean Desperation: Its Two Korea Theory
By Bruce Bennett [Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School]
► Kim Jong-un’s renunciation of peaceful unification is a desperate move to control growing North Korean internal instability.
► Kim appears terrorized by information from South Korea, pushing him to take a standoff dominance approach to the South.
► South Korea and the United States need to heighten deterrence of the North to contain its increasingly dangerous provocations.
