{"580721":{"#nid":"580721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Sharper Choice on North Korea: Nunn-Led Foreign Relations Council Task Force Says Engaging China Is Key to Stability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force published \u003Cem\u003EA Sharper Choice on North Korea: Engaging China for a Stable Northeast Asia\u003C\/em\u003E, a new report on United States policy toward North Korea. Sam Nunn, former United States senator and distinguished professor in the Ivan Allen College\u0026rsquo;s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, serves as co-chair of the Task Force alongside Mike Mullen, retired admiral and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Task Force finds that the U.S. policy of \u0026ldquo;strategic patience\u0026rdquo; with\u0026nbsp;North\u0026nbsp;Korea\u0026nbsp;will neither halt that country\u0026rsquo;s recurring and dangerous cycle of provocation nor ensure the stability of Northeast Asia in the future, and warns, \u0026ldquo;If allowed to continue, current trends will predictably, progressively, and gravely threaten U.S. national security interests and those of its allies.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;The Task Force concludes that without a shift in strategy, the next U.S. president may be confronted by a\u0026nbsp;North\u0026nbsp;Korea\u0026nbsp;that has the ability to strike the U.S. homeland.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full report \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/DPRKSharperChoice\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force published \u003Cem\u003EA Sharper Choice on North Korea: Engaging China for a Stable Northeast Asia\u003C\/em\u003E, a new report on United States policy toward North Korea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force published A Sharper Choice on North Korea: Engaging China for a Stable Northeast Asia, a new report on United States policy toward North Korea."}],"uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-09-21 14:46:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:41","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"495351":{"id":"495351","type":"image","title":"Senator Sam Nunn","body":null,"created":"1454612400","gmt_created":"2016-02-04 19:00:00","changed":"1475895253","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:13","alt":"Senator Sam Nunn","file":{"fid":"204568","name":"senator_nunn_headshot_2010_cropped_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/senator_nunn_headshot_2010_cropped_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/senator_nunn_headshot_2010_cropped_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":320620,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/senator_nunn_headshot_2010_cropped_0_0.jpg?itok=7nzx4o2R"}}},"media_ids":["495351"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/DPRKSharperChoice","title":"CFR Task Force Report"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/about\/task_forces.html","title":"CFR Independent Task Forces"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"172363","name":"Council on Foreign Relations"},{"id":"4042","name":"North Korea"},{"id":"167043","name":"Sam Nunn"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}