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Editor's note
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It’s hard to escape the deluge of headlines about North Korea right now, but if you’re looking for some straight answers to calm the tensions, it’s worth scanning our collection of expert views.
Our editors have been busy talking with academics around the world to find out what the US might do next, whether the latest bomb detonation is the breakthrough Pyongyang asserts it to be, and what science can tell us about the types of weapons North Korea is experimenting with.
I personally like the way our authors bring historical and regional context to an issue it would be easy to panic about. They don’t have all the answers, but they typically take a cool and calm approach to explaining what really matters.
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Charis Palmer
Deputy Editor
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Top story
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North Korea is more likely to use nuclear weapons if backed into a corner where the perpetuation of the Kim regime was directly threatened.
Reuters/KCNA
Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
The North Korea nuclear crisis is exposing the reality of US decline and the growing limitations of its ability to shape the strategic environment in northeast Asia.
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Tensions flare
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Back with a bang.
EPA/Franck Robichon
Virginie Grzelczyk, Aston University
Pyongyang's latest test isn't the great leap forward it purports to be.
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Reuters/Toru Hanai
Nick Bisley, La Trobe University
North Korea wants the security and prestige of nuclear weapons. It won't give them up.
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What the science says
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South Korea’s Meteorological Administration, on the case.
EPA/Jeon Heon-Kyun
Neil Wilkins, University of Bristol
Within hours of North Korea's latest underground nuclear test, Japan and South Korea were both able to independently confirm it had happened. How?
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From the archives
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James Dwyer, University of Tasmania
Intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as the one tested by North Korea this week, fly far too high and fast for current missile defence systems to engage with.
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Robert J Downes, King's College London
What are the implications of North Korea's claims to have detonated a thermonuclear weapon?
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Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
The most viable nonmilitary solution to the standoff with North Korea is to get China to apply pressure. But that's not so easy.
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Carlo Kopp, Monash University
In tonight’s episode of NCIS: Los Angeles airing on Channel Ten, the program’s protagonists try to locate a stolen electromagnetic bomb before detonation. I know this, because I was the scientific advisor…
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Lully Miura, University of Tokyo
Sanctions and warnings have failed to stop Pyongyang's belligerence.
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Daniel Salisbury, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get one?
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Bernard Loo Fook Weng, Nanyang Technological University
South Korea must seek to strike a balance in its respective strategic and economic relationships.
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Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
Regardless of how the US sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula plays out, the international community will ultimately have to accept and learn to manage a nuclear North Korea.
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