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Dealing with North Korea is a team sport, and the U.S. needs China on its side

UNVEILED THREAT Kim recently announced that North Korea was in the “final stages” of test-launching a long-range ballistic missile

LET’S START WITH THE NUMBERS: FIVE. TEN. SIX HUNDRED. That’s five nuclear tests in the past decade; enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear warheads; and the ability to launch ballistic missiles at least 600 miles, and perhaps far longer. That’s the arsenal at the disposal of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Emphasis on un—untested, unlearned and unpredictable. He is also, at 32,

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