
Doctoral candidate Clint Work (2014 Cohort)
In an article “Why North Korea will never attack the United States,” Jackson School doctoral candidate Clint Work looks to history to understand renewed North Korean eagerness to hold talks with the United States. Work suggests that the overtures conform to Pyongyang’s tried and tested tactic of shifting from provocation to engagement and back again, as part of a fundamental aim of uniting the Koreas under the Kim family.