South Korea and Japan are working together on North Korea with the US, and that's progress. But incentives are needed to keep old issues from interfering.
North Korea's fanfare over the ICBM launch pad demonstrates that Japan's possession of counterstrike capability will have a significant deterring effect.
North Korea held a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party (KWP) from December 28-31. Although some 300 full and candidate...