David Sanger: ‘I Don’t Think There Is Going To Be an All Out War’ with North Korea

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SANGER: “I don’t think there is going to be an all-out war in which the North Koreans shoot a nuclear weapon at Los Angeles or beyond. This regime is all about survival and they know what the rest of that story would sound like and look like. I think there are significant risks here, though. One of them is that if the north was in a situation of collapse sometime in the next few years, the way we’ve seen with so many other regimes, though they’ve been immune to it so far, I think it’s conceivable you could see somebody launch a loose nuclear weapon or loose missile thinking that if the north was going to go away, they would take some other states out with it. I think there is some risk that a conventional conflict could result in escalation that became nuclear."