have historically and will most likely pose the greatest strategic risks to safeguarding the interests of the US. With President Putin’s revisionist geopolitical agenda

With President Putin’s revisionist geopolitical agenda in Ukraine renewing the debate on the effectiveness of Russia’s deterrence strategy and President Xi’s relentless pursuit for the “China dream,” the STRATEGIC COMPETITION: DON’T seemingly eroding strategic environment has forced SLEEP ON NORTH KOREA the US and its allies to rethink its traditional deterrence strategy in the modern world. [...] on Strategic Risks and as a nuclear scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Diana Don’t Sleep on North Korea: It’s an N-Body wrote on nuclear escalation of weaker states and the Problem need for the United States to modernize its nuclear command, control, and communication systems. [...] Though the relative nuclear arsenal of the In the era of strategic competition, China and Russia “three-bodies” dwarf North Korea’s current nuclear are the key players in US foreign policy—the same arsenal and delivery capabilities, Kim Jong Un has sentiment rung true during the Long-Term vowed to increase these numbers. [...] Moreover, North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal With Indo-Pacific being the most challenging theater will force the US and its allies to contend with another for the US and its allies, it arguably requires the troubling reality: dealing with a regional power with greatest deterrence adaption. [...] Moreover, the US has worked to North Korea’s partnership dating back to the Korean raise their allies’ nuclear deterrence IQs, such as the War, one may be inclined to bucket Pyongyang in the launch of the Nuclear Consultative Group between same group with one of the other “bigger” Seoul and Washington last year.