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My colleague Jeremi Suri's call to attack North Korea's missile installations pre-emptively is deeply misguided ("Bomb North Korea, Before It's Too Late," Op-Ed, nytimes.com, April 13). The best path forward begins with an unconditional offer to sign a peace treaty ending the Korean War, an idea that, 60 years after the armistice of 1953, still has never been tried.
This would not be a concession to North Korean demands, because it is not a concession. Instead, peace is the substance of what all countries involved in Northeast Asia want, or should.
From there, negotiations involving mutual step-by-step concessions on the pattern of the 1994 Agreed Framework may proceed.
Rhetoric like Professor Suri's only underscores the legitimacy of North Korean fears about national security. When we see mock-ups of missile trajectories crossing the Pacific to the United States mainland — fantasy though these are — we should think, This is what deterrence feels like.
ROBERT OPPENHEIM
Austin, Tex., April 17, 2013
The writer is an associate professor of Asian studies and head of the Korean studies program at the University of Texas at Austin.
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