Mitchell B. Reiss’ article focuses more on the alliances that the United States should be collaborating with to address the problem with North Korea. She has a three step plan that she feels would work best for the U.S. Those three steps recommend that the U.S. shouldn’t be going to the North Koreans for their cooperation, but instead building support with Seoul and Tokyo. Step one recommends that the U.S. should but patient in their solution.

Philip Zelikow’s article (“Be ready to strike and destroy North Korea’s missile test”) said the solution was to take action quickly the first time. He feels that the U.S. should sit around and to see what happens but should take action to disarm North Korea. However, his article did have a similarity with Reiss’ because both acknowledged the need for repaired alliances to fix the problem in North Korea.