Confronting North Korea's nuclear and missile programs: American and Japanese views of threats and options compared

On January 8, the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution held a poll release and panel discussion looking at how the Japanese and American publics view the threats and the options available to deal with North Korea, including military options. Two new polls - one in Japan, carried out by Japan's The Genron NPO, and one in the United States, carried out by the University of Maryland's Critical Issues Poll with Nielsen Scarborough - probed Japanese and American attitudes, asking identical questions. For the poll questionnaires and PowerPoint, please click here. 

Panelists
Shibley Telhami 
The Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development
Director of the University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Yasushi Kudo
President, The Genron NPO
Tokyo, Japan 

and

Richard C. Bush
The Michael H. Armacost Chair
Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies
Co-Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

and 

Moderator
Michael E. O'Hanlon 
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence
Director of Research, Foreign Policy, The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair