04/17/17 – Ted Galen Carpenter on Trump’s schoolyard strategy for dealing with North Korea – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Interviews

Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, discusses Trump’s strategy of pressuring Kim Jong-un by leveraging China’s influence; how the Trump administration’s middle-school mentality on North Korea makes for a disastrous foreign policy; and why the US’s peacekeeping/regional hegemony role in Asia isn’t nearly as essential as some commentators think.

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