North Korea’s H-Bomb Test: The (Impossible) Economic Context

By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Who decides what in Pyongyang? Do fierce political battles rage between hardliners and reformers, where the former group struggles to replace nuclear belligerence with liberal market economics and trade? Whenever a purge or suspicious death occurs in Pyongyang, speculations come alive about potential policy changes by the regime. It is a … Continue reading North Korea’s H-Bomb Test: The (Impossible) Economic Context