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The stench of appeasement hung over the Munich Security Conference this past weekend.

North Korean is seeking to exploit a fractured geopolitical landscape, increasing the nuclear threat in the process, says Karishma Vaswani for Bloomberg Opinion.

This report highlights two emerging and interrelated deterrence challenges in East Asia with grave risks to US national security.

While a conversation has commenced, there has been no substantive communication between the United States and North Korea on the issue of the 23-year-old U.S. Army Private Travis King, detained in North Korea after crossing the military demarcation line on July 18. How to respond to the North's escalating military provocations, from the U.S. and its allies' standpoint, isn't the prime issue here ― rather, it is about how to secure King's return to the U.S.

While a conversation has commenced, there has been no substantive communication between the United States and North Korea on the issue of the 23-year-old U.S. Army Private Travis King, detained in North Korea after crossing the military demarcation line on July 18. How to respond to the North's escalating military provocations, from the U.S. and its allies' standpoint, isn't the prime issue here - rather, it is about how to secure King's return to the U.S.