The Use of Force in North Korea: The Legal Process

The black letter law and articles in this week’s episode are: Op Ed by National Security Adviser John Bolton “The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-legal-case-for-striking-north-korea-first-1519862374 Op Ed by Richard Cohen “Trump will exit the North Korea summit a failure” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-will-exit-the-north-korea-summit-a-failure/2018/04/23/c2b7da22-4720-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html?utm_term=.99b51222b127 President Obama’s address on avoiding use of force in Syria, after chemical weapon attacks https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria Jus in Bello and Jus ad Bellum https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=310988&p=2079383 Joint Chiefs of Staff hold off on enforcing ban on trans military members announced on Twitter http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-top-u-s-general-tells-military-leaders-1501171360-htmlstory.html Congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force from 2001 https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf War Powers Resolution 50 U.S.C. 1541–1548 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-33 UN Charter http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/un-charter-full-text/ Nicaragua v. the United States of America (ICJ) http://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/70