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Wendy Sherman, SPECIAL ADVISOR on North Korea policy to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said one option is a unilateral, pre-emptive U.S. attack on Pyongyang. That probably would start a war with catastrophic consequences for hundreds of thousands of South Koreans and the 37,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, she said.

Or, Sherman said, the administration could try to contain North Korea to keep it from "going over the edge."

Yet another option, she said, would be to ignore the North Koreans and let them have their nuclear weapons, as the United States has not acted to remove nuclear weapons from Pakistan.

Sherman agrees with Einhorn that full-fledged negotiations is an option, that must be considered. She suggested they could be conducted even in secret, if necessary, to stop the crisis from escalating.

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She's Clinton damage control.