Hermit kingdom

January 18, 2024 | John Hardie |

Russian Munitions Production Higher But Still Insufficient

In an interview published on January 15, Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, or GUR, provided assessments of Russia’s production rate...

April 12, 2021 | David Maxwell |

Anticipating the Biden Administration’s New North Korea Policy

The heart of the administration’s new Korea policy will likely focus on implementing the relevant UN Security Council resolutions to achieve North Korea’s verifiable nuclear dismantlement.

April 18, 2018 | Mathew Ha |

China’s attempted power play hands leverage to Trump on North Korea

Does China get too much credit for its leverage over North Korea? Even after Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Kim Jong Un for a surprise summit in Beijing last month, FDD Research Analyst Math...

July 31, 2017 | |

How America’s Friends Aid North Korea’s Missile Program

On Friday, North Korea tested its second intercontinen...

October 23, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Book Review: Dancing With the Iranian Devil

To understand the foreign policy goals of European engagement with Iran during its nascent phase, it is worth recalling a joke of the time. In 1984, Germany’s then-foreign mi...

June 11, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Iran On A Nuclear Roll

“America cannot do a damn thing.” A banner displaying that slogan adorned the stage of an elegant mausoleum in Tehran where ...

May 7, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Christians Persecuted at Alarming Rate in Iran, Arab World, US Report Says

Christians are under siege in the Middle East, and the Obama administration is not doing enough to stop religious persecution by its allies, according to a new report from a bipartisan federal co...

February 14, 2013 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Why Iran Already Has the Bomb

If North Korea has the bomb—as this week’s nuclear test indicated—then for all practical purposes, so does Iran.

March 2, 2011 | Pajamas Media

The Iranian Civil War

According to the Daily Beast, yesterday’s demonstrations against the Iranian regime were smaller than those on February 14th, but in fact they were both larger and more aggressive.  Th...

September 17, 2009 | |

Axis Of Opportunism

The bad old Axis of Evil is back in the news. That's not because President Barack Obama has resurrected the label, but because he's now planning to hold direct talks with its two surviv...

July 16, 2007 | |

Six-Party Celebration?

According to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Those familiar with North Korea’s recent history are forgiven...

November 6, 2003 | FrontPageMagazine

A Saudi Glasnost?

By Andrew Apostolou Saudi Arabia's rulers are now paying lip-service to supporting an experiment with a Gorbachev-like program of Perestroika and Glasnost. But are they serious? If...