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Andrei Lankov asks us to "Stay Cool. Call North Korea's Bluff" over Pyongyang's recent threats to reignite a war on the Korean Peninsula (Op-Ed, April 10). This is potentially dangerous advice.
It is true that North Korea has made bellicose statements many times in the past, and that its most outrageous threats to send nuclear missiles to the United States mainland should not be taken seriously.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that North Korea's military capacity and nuclear arsenal continue to grow, and the tension on the Korean Peninsula has great potential for a miscalculation on either side to escalate into catastrophe.
Ignoring North Korea will not make the problem go away. The problem will only worsen over time until the Korean War armistice is replaced with a permanent peace regime.
CHARLES K. ARMSTRONG
New York, April 11, 2013
The writer is director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University and the author of the forthcoming "Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992."
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