North Korea test-fires intercontinental missiles that may be able to reach the U.S. West Coast. Kim Jong Un threatens Guam, tangles with China, and conducts a nuclear test of what his country claims is a hydrogen bomb. And in America, a dysfunctional and internationally unpopular White House answers North Korean provocations with threats of “unprecedented fire and fury.” How close is the world to a calamity on the Korean peninsula? UCLA Korea historian John Duncan, senior advisor at the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation collaborative N Square Paul Carroll, cultural researcher at UCLA film school Suk-Young Kim, CEO of Liberty in North Korea Hannah Song, and moderator Jean H. Lee, former Pyongyang Bureau Chief of the Associated Press, visited Zócalo on Oct. 24, 2017 to discuss the looming threat, and potential aftermath, of a renewed Korean war in a Zócalo/UCLA panel discussion titled “Is War With North Korea Inevitable?” at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown Los Angeles.