I see what Prof. Atkinson tells us to do in regard to the White House's master, but I do not know what policy he suggests in regard to North Korea's nuclear programs.

why is North Korea so difficult? Because it is Confucianist.
There are three Confucianist societies or countries in the world: China, Korea, and Vietnam. Japan is not a Confucianist country.

Prof. Michael Pillsbury, an American sinologist, says he at last found himself deceived by China. It is strange that it took such a long time to come to the recognition. It is amazing how good people of the West are at misunderstanding (at being deceived by) China, as I said in my comment, It Is Not China's Fault, on Michael Pillsbury/The Hunderd-Year Marathon, amazon usa.

First a little bit about China:
One of the oft-repeated exhortation in China is "use the past to serve the present." There is now an avalanche of Chinese history to justify China's current assertive, some might say expansionist policy (Suisheng Zhao, Reconstruction of Chinese History).
https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/reconstruction-chinese-history-peaceful-rise.

the reality of empire was that of a hard core of wei, or force, surrounded by a soft pulp of de, virtue...Although court records praise the Confucian wisdom of emperors, they in fact behaved like Legalists, who suggested that the well-ordered society depended on clear rules and punishment for violators rather than benevolence (June Teufel Dreyer, China's Tianxia: Do All Under Heaven Need One Arbiter?).
https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/china's-tianxia-do-all-under-heaven-need-one-arbiter.

To be continued.

The Legalist conquror needed the efficient administrator, and a place of responsibility and honor was, accordingly, created for him in the government. As a result, men of education became supporters rather than opponents of the state (Edwin O. Reischauer, East Asia: Tradition and Transformation, co-authored by J. K. Fairbank and A. M. Craig).
Chinese feelings of cultural superiority are monumental, deriving as they do from a three thousand year tradition (E. O. Reischauer, The Japanese).

As I read before, Confucius wandered for years seeking for the post of a political adviser. When he found one, he was asked by the king what to do with his opponents in the kingdom. Conficius replied, "Annihilate them."

Now a little bit about Korea.
Korean culture and society is more Confucian (more Chinese-like) than Chinese is itself.

The Koreans in the early Yi dynasty adopted Confucianism with such enthusiasm that their value system and social practices were restuctured along Chinese lines more fully than ever before...It may have become more uniformly and fully permeated by Confucian ideas than China was itself. In fact, Korea became in many ways an alomst model Confucian society...Probably as a result of this intensive study of Confucian texts, the Koreans also developed a very literal but sincere devotion to Confucian principles and an almost fanatical adherence to Confucian rituals...Another result of this emphasis on Confucian scholarship may have been a narrowing of the range of intellectual interests and a growing dogmatism of thought (E. O. Reischauer, East Asia: Tradition and Transformation).

Their insane dogmatism makes them feeling shameless and guiltless in their international anti-Japanese propaganda of gigantic lies of "Japanese kidnapped two hundred thousand Korean women and foreced them to work as comfort women, and killed them when they were defeated in the war.

To be continued.

As for comfort women, I posted a comment, American Humanism, on Chinese Comfort Women, amazon usa.

Japan is not a Confucianist society. Whether a nation is Confucianist or not makes millions of light-years' difference.
No country is punished for showing virtues and for the crimes it did not commit like Japan.
Japan was the only non-Western country which made quick and smoothly transformation, by introducing and internalizing Western values, from pre-industrial to modern industrial country. It was punished for it by US Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Doctrine in 1899 and the German Emperor Wilhelm II's theory of the Yellow Peril.

Japan wanted to withdraw its army from China and avoid war with the United States but it was punished for this by the Roosevelt Administration, as I quoted in my comment on Hamilton Fish/FDR, the other side of the coin: How we were tricked into World War II, amazon usa, "Many people who are familiar with the WWII history may think that the Japanese of that time were solely fixated on going to war with the United States to win dominace in the Pacific, but (US) Ambassador Grew reveals that most Japanese actually wanted peace with the US. British Ambassador Robert Cragie was in Tokyo at time. He was of the same opinion..."

You can enter a house by a backdoor (Japan) when the front door is locked. It was how President Roosevelt entered into the World War II. The United States had been making war-like provocations on Nazi Germany in the Atlantic, but Hitler knew how the US joined in the First World War, so did not give in and restrained himself. So the Roosevelt Administration took advantage of the negotiation proposed by Japan, as I said in my comment on Charles Beard/President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: Appearances and Realities, amazon usa.

I shall appreciate very much if people read them.