Debate between Sarah Kendior (scholar of authoritarian states) and Dr John Nilsson-Wright, senior research fellow for northeast Asia with the Asia Programme at Chatham House.

The question: Is there a real risk of nuclear action between the USA and North Korea?

Ms. Kendzior says yes and gives her reasons. Dr. Nilsson-Wright takes the opposite position and also says why he thinks that.

cityam.com

Ms. Kendzior starts:

Unfortunately, there is a real risk - and Donald Trump is more likely to use nuclear weapons than Kim Jong-un. Trump has been obsessed with nuclear weapons since 1984, when he proclaimed he could learn all he needed to know about them in an hour and a half. In 1987, he discussed dropping nuclear weapons on Pakistan and France, and in 1990, he proclaimed their use inevitable. In 2016, Trump asked “if we have them, why not use them?”

Dr. Nilsson-Wright starts:

Despite Donald Trump’s bellicose warning of “fire and fury” if North Korea continues its provocations, nuclear war is highly unlikely. US military might is there to deter the DPRK from attacking, and Kim Jong-un is rational and knows that launching an attack, conventional or nuclear, would be suicidal.

(more at the link from both)