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The real threat to peace in Asia
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Fire and Fury: How the US Isolates North Korea, Encircles China and Risks Nuclear War in Asia
by TJ Coles
(Clairview Books, £10.99)
THIS short book by British academic TJ Coles will perhaps not receive as much attention as another recently released work on Donald Trump that shares its name. It is, nonetheless, an important and insightful book, providing as it does an alternative viewpoint on the escalating crisis over Korea and in promoting an urgent message of peace.
Coles's primary aim is to dismantle the idea that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a serious danger to regional and global stability and that it is an aggressive nuclear state that deserves to be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” as threatened by the US president.
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