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Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He is the author of several books, including most recently The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea, co-authored with Ted Galen Carpenter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)