That's glib, these are some of the most experienced hands on North Korea in the world. One of them was even invited by the North Koreans to personally inspect their nuclear facilities. They're warning of a profoundly dangerous event. The consequences are so intense, we shouldn't just dismiss it like all the ignored warnings regarding Russia's invasion

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Robert L. Carlin is a nonresident scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a former chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the US State Department, where he took part in US-North Korean negotiations.

Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor of practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a professor of practice at Texas A&M University, and a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and professor emeritus of Stanford University.