Managing North Korea

We are in the eye of the storm of U.S.-North Korea relations. Both sides are assessing the Hanoi summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un and its aftermath, and we await a significant public pronouncement by Kim. Despite the drama of Kim’s emergence on the world stage, North Korea has established predictable patterns of behavior that can simplify and facilitate U.S. decision-making about the difficult challenges the North is about to pose.North Korea adopted a typical