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This paper assesses US strategy toward North Korea over the last two decades and contrasts it with the US approach to Iran since 2003. North Korea and Iran are very different states that share at least one crucial similarity: decades of estrangement from Washington combined with US efforts to isolate them from the international community. They also play destabilizing roles in the regions they inhabit, lack respect for basic democratic freedoms, and maintain policies antagonistic to the US, its friends, and its allies.