2017+North+Korea

=Can North Korea Be Stopped ? (Scholastic)=

This discussion is based on the __Scholastic Magazine__ feature, "Can North Korea Be Stopped?".

Here is a direct link- https://junior.scholastic.com/issues/2017-18/091817/can-north-korea-be-stopped.html and the password to log in is Greenmen.

You can also click on the Scholastic link in the wikispaces menu, and log in as a student using the same password Greenmen. This opens the full September 18th online edition of the student news magazine which you can explore through magazine view- or by scrolling down the featured stories, open more interactive versions of the main stories. Embedded in the article are short videos and slide shows.

North Korea with its quickly developing nuclear weapons program poses quite a threat to not just East Asia, but potentially to the United States as well. **Our options are limited- how do you think we should proceed?** This is a crisis that has little to do directly with 9/11. President Trump is expected to address the United Nations this week, and North Korea will surely be a topic that he brings up. Our ambassador to the UN. Nikki Haley has already worked with the UN Security Council to increase economic sanctions on North Korea and has asked for support from the two nations which probably have the most influence on North Korea- China and Russia. //**Does history offer any advice? Have there been similar diplomatic impasses that we- or other nations have found peaceful ways to resolve?**//

//**And, what does this have to do with the legacy of the Korea War... the "Forgotten War" whose monument we'll visit on our Washington D.C. Trip?**//