Answering Your Questions On North Korea And Nuclear Weapons

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Published August 14, 2017 at 11:06 AM EDT

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a defense detachment.

As tensions mount between the U.S. and North Korea, so does the number of unanswered questions.

Would the U.S. launch a pre-emptive strike?

Would North Korea really attack Guam?

What role will China play?

How did we get to this point?

In this show, we’re taking all questions, big and small, on North Korea. Send them to us with this form, or tune in and give us a call.

GUESTS

Keith Luse, Executive director, National Committee on North Korea; he served as the Republican East Asia policy adviser to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2003 until 2013

Sheila Smith, Senior fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; author of “Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China”; @SheilaSmithCFR

Jon Wolfsthal, Nonresident scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; he served in the Obama administration as senior director for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Security Council

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