North Korea Can Strike America Now—and Our Options Are All Still Bad

As long as Pyongyang refuses to talk and continues to build and test relentlessly, will pressure to strike North Korea become too great? On November 29, North Korea broke its seventy-five day lull in missile tests to launch yet another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). There had been some hope that the ten-week pause suggested that the North felt it had gone far enough and now might negotiate.