Philip Williams, ABC News Online: North Korea: What can actually be done to deal with a nuclear Pyongyang? (Analysis)
From the first tweak of the seismograph it was clear this was no ordinary tremor — it signalled the most powerful bomb of all.
The North Korean TV newsreader announced with a flourish this was the state's first hydrogen bomb. If that now means Pyongyang has the weapon and the delivery system that could wipe out a Los Angeles, a San Francisco or a Sydney in a flash, then the world is now a different place.
Nuclear weapons are supposed to be a deterrent — make yourself so dangerous no-one will ever dare challenge you.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 3, 2017
North Korea declares H-bomb test ‘a perfect success’ -- Asia Times/AFP
How China Can Really Help on North Korea -- Michael Auslin, National Interest
North Korea: Doesn’t Kim Jong Un understand ‘suicidal’? -- Grant Newsham, Asia Times
How Kim rules: What the North Korean leader's unexpected directions for his country mean for the US -- Michael Holtz, CSM
It's Time to Get Tough on China and Russia about North Korea -- Anthony Ruggiero, National Interest
North Korea Says It Successfully Tested a Hydrogen Bomb—Is It Time to Nuke Kim's Economy? -- Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast
America's Strategic Partnership with India Is about More than Afghanistan -- Walter Lohman, National Interest
Beginning of end of Syria war could be closer than ever with IS collapse -- Song Lifang, Xinhuanet
Arabs, Kurds unite against IS, but post-victory? ‘God knows’ -- Sarah El Deeb, AP
Obama’s Myanmar legacy in trouble and it’s not Trump’s fault -- Matthew Pennington, AP
How Iraq War Hawks Can Help Stop Trump from Going to War with Iran -- Jon Finer, Rob Malley, and Jeff Prescott, New Yorker
Crunch Time in Paris -- Holger Schmieding, RCW
Scandal Upstages Guatemala's Leader -- Mac Margolis, Bloomberg
A Terror Group in its Death Throes? -- Christoph Reuter, DW
Are Think Tanks Doomed? -- Daniel W. Dezner, Politico
