Mashable quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning on how the North Korea bomb test affects US diplomatic relations with North Korea:
Those missiles aren’t usually equipped with nuclear warheads, but they could be, Robert Manning, a senior fellow focusing on international security at The Atlantic Council, told Mashable.
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“Nobody wants to admit this, but there’s kind of a state of mutual deterrence between the U.S. and North Korea,” Manning said.