(published on Nukes of Hazard) Last month, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) sought to authenticate North Korea’s status as a nuclear weapon state by citing a recent assessment by Robert Norris and Hans Kristensen. KCNA reported that “the Federation of American Scientists of the United States has confirmed (North) Korea as a nuclear weapon state.” [...]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A D.C. think tank blog has responded to the op-ed posted below. My colleague and I have rebutted.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
(published on Nukes of Hazard) As the Obama administration closes in on an agenda for bilateral talks with Pyongyang, it looks as though the United States and South Korea are back on the same page after a protracted spell of miscommunication…
Thursday, October 22, 2009
(published on Nukes of Hazard) Are the U.S. and South Korea struggling to effectively coordinate policy on North Korea? Last week Kurt Campbell, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, applauded the current level of international cooperation on the North Korea issue, but recent interactions between the U.S. and South Korea paint [...]
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
(published on Nukes of Hazard) On August 26, senior Indian nuclear scientist K. Santhanam publicly questioned the success of India’s 1998 nuclear tests. Calling the thermonuclear experiment a “fizzle,” he endorsed the need for new tests. It has been over a month, but the controversy surrounding his comments has yet to subside. The New York [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Some recent reports indicate that U.S.-Russian negotiations for the ‘New START’ agreement have been snagged on some thorny complications. Disagreements over delivery vehicle numbers and conventionally armed long-range systems, as well as the minutiae of counting and inspection rules, could call into question the U.S.-Russian goal of negotiating a follow-on agreement by START’s December 5th [...]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
President Obama’s decision on Thursday to abandon his predecessor’s plan to place a Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile interceptor system in Europe has set off a firestorm of competing remarks and claims over the last few days. Enthusiastic support and turbulent opposition have stridently clashed in the media and on the Hill. Newspapers, think tank [...]
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
President Obama is now officially neck-deep in a decisive diplomatic test. In the wake of a confusing mixture of conciliatory and provocative gestures by North Korea, the Obama Administration announced on Friday that it is open to direct bilateral talks with Pyongyang, provided that they would be a stepping stone to reestablishment of the Six-Party [...]
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Ok, so what exactly is going on with North Korea? It is often difficult to separate public diplomacy from the real diplomacy. Similarly, it is also difficult to separate hard analysis from catchy headlines. As a ‘rogue’ nation, North Korea is under the constant scrutiny of the media and governments worldwide. Thus, there is an incredible [...]
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