Agreed Framework

May 4, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Deal or no deal

Iran’s rulers may be demanding too much even for Biden

March 13, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero, Michael Rubin

North Korea Shows How the Iranian Nuclear Deal Will Fail

Nuclear negotiations with North Korea have shown us that limited nuclear deals allow the proliferator the time and space to develop nuclear weapons.

May 16, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Trump’s art of the nuclear deals

Donald Trump inherited two deadly serious national security crises, one in the Middle East, one in the Far East.  Look closely and you’ll see that these crises are inseverable....

May 3, 2018 | Richard Goldberg |

Netanyahu’s Intelligence Bombshell Should Spell End of Iran Deal

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped an intelligence bombshell on the world Monday and, with it, may have signed the death warrant for the 2015 Iran nuclear accord: Thousands of file...

April 30, 2018 | Mathew Ha |

Inter-Korean Summit: Tall on Promises, Short on Implementation

 “A new era of peace has begun” and “complete denuclearization” is on the horizon, according to the...

December 23, 2017 | John Hannah |

Iran’s North Korean Playbook to Protect Its Nuclear Program

Anyone watching the systematic consolidation of North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability over the past decade can’t help but worry about the parallels with Iran. Like Iran, North Kore...

September 5, 2017 | |

It’s Time to Get Tough on China and Russia about North Korea

North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclea...

September 5, 2017 | |

Pyongyang’s Playbook

The crisis between the United States and North Korea shows no signs of abating. Indeed, Pyongyang escalated its provocations last week, firing a missile over Japan on August 29. Critics of the pr...

August 22, 2017 | Olli Heinonen, David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, Frank Pabian

Revisiting Parchin

Institute for Science and International Security

July 19, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

The proliferation problem from hell

On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...

May 5, 2017 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Should Trump Meet With Kim Jong Un?

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong Un under the right conditions. Trump is not the first president to consider meeting a North Korean le...

March 22, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Trump’s pivot to North Korea

America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president — any American president — needs t...

September 16, 2016 | Olli Heinonen |

North Korea’s 5th Nuclear Test – What now?

North Korea just heralded the 68th anniversary of its founding by conducting its fifth nuclear test...

February 16, 2016 | R. James Woolsey |

Underestimating Nuclear Missile Threats from North Korea and Iran

Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry F. Cooper, Fritz Ermarth and Peter Vincent Pry North Korea launched its second satellite on Saturday, yet the national press continues to...

August 31, 2015 | |

Nuclear Fiascoes: From Diplomatic Failure With North Korea To Debacle With Iran

With Congress due to vote by Sept. 17 on the Iran nuclear deal, there’s a warning worth revisiting. It goes like this: The president is pushing a historic nuclear agreement, saying it will...

November 7, 2014 | |

Iran Nuclear Talks and North Korean Flashbacks

With the Iran nuclear talks nearing a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal, U.S. chief negotiator Wendy Sherman is under pressure to bring almost a year of bargaining to fruition. While U.S. ...

November 19, 2013 | |

Iran Follows in North Korea’s Nuclear Shoes

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva earlier this month to say t...

April 20, 2011 | Bret Stephens The Rosett Report |

Please, Not Another Jimmy Carter Jaunt to North Korea

It would be an act of mercy for the planet, were Jimmy Carter to hang up his carry-on bag and devote the rest of his days to annotating his post-presidential grocery lists, or maybe sign up for D...

November 22, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

North Korea and the Audacity of Nuclear Extortion

If they gave prizes for the art of nuclear blackmail, North Korea's Kim Jong Il would right now be hoisting his trophy for lifetime achievement. Call it the Plutonium-Uranium-Switcheroo Shak...

February 19, 2009 | |

Try Real ‘Change’ Toward North Korea

We shouldn't ''engage'' with a government that kills, suppresses and starves its citizens.